Prof Lou-Marie Kruger

Professor

Biography

Professor Lou-Marié Kruger het 'n M.Soc.Sci. (Politieke Studies) van die Universiteit van Kaapstad (1989) en 'n M.A. en PhD (Kliniese Sielkunde) van die Universiteit van Boston (1996) verwerf. Sy het in 1996 'n internskap vir Kliniese Sielkunde, geakkrediteer deur die Amerikaanse Sielkundige Vereniging, by die Massachusetts Mental Health Centre, Harvard Medical School voltooi. Sy was in 2016 naaswenner vir die nasionale toekenning, Distinguished Women Researcher, en het ook in 2017 'n B-2-gradering van die NRF ontvang. Sy is tans professor en voorsitter van die departement by die Departement Sielkunde van die Universiteit Stellenbosch. In haar navorsing fokus sy op die emosionele wêrelde van lae-inkomste Suid-Afrikaanse moeders, deur hoofsaaklik gebruik te maak van psigoanalitiese, feministiese en postmoderne teoretiese raamwerke. In 2020 is haar boek Of Motherhood and Melancholia: Notebook of a Psycho-ethnographer deur UKZN Press gepubliseer. Kruger het ook al meer as 20 jaar 'n klein deeltydse privaatpraktyk in Stellenbosch. 

Navorsing

Navorsingsonderwerpe

  • Vroue se geestesgesondheid
  • Armoede en geestesgesondheid
  • Feministiese sielkunde
  • Sielkunde en Biografie-skryfwerk
  • Psigoanalitiese psigoterapie in Suid-Afrika

Oor my navorsing

Alhoewel ek 'n kliniese sielkundige van opleiding is, noem ek myself as navorser 'n psigo-etnograaf. Ek noem myself 'n etnograaf, want ek stel belang in die materialiteit van die alledaagse lewe, die beliggaamde ervaring van arm wees en vrou wees. As sielkundige stel ek belang in hoe wat aan die buitekant is, die binnekant word. In lyn met meer postmoderne lesings van psigoanalitiese teorie, worstel ek met die binêre teenstellings van individu en samelewing en ek stel belang in die donker plekke waar die individu die sosiale internaliseer en waar die individu die sosiale konstrueer. Ek wil dus daarop aandring om beide sosiale wetenskaplike/etnograaf en sielkundige te wees. In my pogings om te verstaan ​​hoe individuele biografieë in groter matrikse ingebed is, het ek feministiese relasionele psigoanalise en diskursiewe sielkunde besonder nuttig gevind. In my analise gee ek dus noukeurige aandag aan detail en sosiale teorie (tipies geassosieer met diskursiewe sielkunde), maar ek fokus ook op individuele biografieë en emosionele subtekste (tipies die terrein van psigoanalise). Deur gereeld 'n gevallestudiebenadering te gebruik, wil ek altyd implisiet argumenteer dat mense kompleks, veelsydig, gesitueer, in proses, onder konstruksie is. Ek wil altyd in staat wees om verskeie faktore in ag te neem wanneer ek na 'n gemeenskap of mense kyk: subjektiwiteit, konteks, geskiedenis, intersubjektiwiteit, die materiële besonderhede van lewens, diskoerse, die onbewuste, verskil, teorie en taal. My metodologie dwing my ook om betrokke te raak by die aktiwiteit van voortdurende selfrefleksie of refleksiwiteit. Dit vereis 'n voortdurende ondervraging van myself met betrekking tot wat ek doen, hoe ek dit doen, wat ek uitvind en wat ek doen met wat ek uitvind.

Geselekteerde Publikasies

Akademiese Artikels

Kruger, L. (2019). Of Violence and Intimacy: The Shame of Loving and Being Loved. The Philosophical Journal of Conflict and Violence. 3(1), 55-72.

Hartley, M & Kruger, L. (2017). On being human. The power of specificity in psychotherapy in the South African context. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in South Africa. 25(2).

Hamman, C., & Kruger, L. (2017). Gossip girl: The power of girls’ gossip in a low-income South African community. Critical arts. 31(1), 1-17, DOI: 10.1080/02560046.2017.1300822

Van Ewyk, J., & Kruger, L. (2017). The emotional experience of motherhood in planned lesbian families in the South African context: “…look how good a job I’m doing, look how amazing we are”. Journal of Homosexuality, 64(3), 343-366 DOI: 10.1080/00918369.2016.1190216

Kruger, L. and Van Wyk, S. (2017). Editorial. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in South Africa. 24(2).

Kruger, L. (2017). When virtuous (“deugsame”) women flee: reflections on dread and flight in a South African group therapy. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in South Africa.

Dukas, C., & Kruger, L. (2016). A feminist phenomenological description of depression in low-income South African women. Journal of Women’s Health and Wellness, 2(1), 014-022. http://clinmedjournals.org/articles/ijwhw/international-journal-of-womens-health-and-wellness-ijwhw-2-014.pdf

Kruger, L., & Lourens, M. (2016). Motherhood and the “madness of hunger”: “…want almal vra vir my vir ‘n stukkie brood” (“…because everyone asks me for a little piece of bread”). Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 40(1), 124-143. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11013-015-9480-5

Kruger, L., Shefer, T., & Oakes, A. (2015). ‘I could have done everything and why not?’: Young women’s complex constructions of sexual agency in the context of sexualities education in Life Orientation in South African schools. Perspectives in Education, 33(2), 30-48 http://reference.sabinet.co.za/sa_epublication_article/persed_v33_n2_a3

Meyer, K., & Kruger, L. (2015). “You get angry inside yourself”: Low-income adolescent South African girls’ subjective experience of depression. Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 51(2), 174-191. http://www.scielo.org.za/scielo.php?pid=S0037-80542015000200002&script=sci_arttext&tlng=pt

Shefer, T., Kruger, L., Macleod, C., Baxen, J., & Vincent, L. (2015). ‘… a huge monster that should be feared and not done’: Lessons learned in sexuality education classes in South Africa. African Safety Promotion. Special issue: Youth, Violence and Equality: Local-Global Perspectives, 13(1), 71-87 http://reference.sabinet.co.za/sa_epublication_article/safety_v13_n1_a5

Shefer, T., Kruger, L., &. Schepers, Y. (2015). Masculinity, sexuality and vulnerability in ‘working’ with young men in South African contexts: “You feel like a fool and an idiot … a loser”. Culture, Health and Sexuality. Special issue: Beyond Working with Boys and Men, 17, 96-111. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/13691058.2015.1075253

Kruger, L., Van der Straaten, K., Taylor, L., Dukas, C. & Lourens, M. (2014). The melancholy of murderous mothers: Reflections on the violence of the institution of motherhood. Feminism and Psychology, 24(4), 461-478.
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Kruger, L. (2014). Book review: Psychodynamic psychotherapy in South Africa: Contexts, theories and applications. [Review of the book Psychodynamic psychotherapy in South Africa: Contexts, theories and applications, edited by C. Smith, G. Lobbon & M. O’Loughlin]. Psycho-analytic Psychotherapy in South Africa, 22(1), 133-145 http://reference.sabinet.co.za/sa_epublication_article/ppsa_v22_n1_a9

Kruger, L. (2014). The whales beneath the surface: The muddled story of doing research with poor mothers in a developing country. Health Care for Women International. Special Issue: Women and Health in Africa, 35(7-9). http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/07399332.2014.906441

Fleming, K. & Kruger, L. (2014). “She keeps his secrets”: A gendered analysis of the impact of shame on the non-disclosure of sexual violence in one low-income South African community. African Safety Promotion: A Journal of Injury and Violence Prevention, 11(2),107-124. http://reference.sabinet.co.za/sa_epublication_article/safety_v11_n2_a10

Capri, C., Kruger, L., & Tomlinson, M. (2013). Child sexual abuse workers’ emotional experiences of working therapeutically in the Western Cape, South Africa. Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal, 30, 365-382. http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s10560-012-0295-8

Lourens, M., & Kruger, L. (2013). Die subjektiewe ervaring van depressie onder Suid-Afrikaanse vroue in ’n lae-inkomste gemeenskap. Social Work/Maatskaplike Werk, 49(2), 248-270. http://socialwork.journals.ac.za/pub/article/view/68.

Fuchs, O., Kruger, L., & Gobodo-Madikizela, P. (2013). An exploration of German subjectivity three generations after the end of World War Two. The Humanistic Psychologist, 41(2), 133-158. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/08873267.2012.694127#.VmV81Lh97IU

Kruger, L. (2012). “Vrot kolletjies.” (rotten spots): Reflections on shame, silence and enactment in psychotherapy with impoverished clients. Psychodynamic Psychotherapy in South Africa, 20(2), 1-32. http://reference.sabinet.co.za/sa_epublication_article/ppsa_v20_n2_a2

Kruger, L., & Schoombee, C. (2010). The other side of caring: Violence in the maternity ward. Journal of Reproductive and Infant Psychology, 28(1), 84-101. http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02646830903294979#.VmV9QLh97IU

Boekhoofstukke

Kruger, L. (2020). The becoming girl: Anton van Wouw’s Noitjie van die Onderveld (Lass of the Onderveld), Afrikaner nationalism and the construction of the “volksmoeder” (mother of the nation) discourse. In F. Freshi, B. Schmahmann, & L. van Robbroeck (Eds.), Troubling Images: Visual Culture and the Politics of Afrikaner Nationalism. Wits University Press: Johannesburg.

Kruger, L (2015). The whales beneath the surface: The muddled story of doing research with poor mothers in a developing country. In C. O. Izugbara, E. K. Covan, & E. Fugate-Whitlock (Eds.), Women’s Health in Africa (pp. 7-18). Routledge: London.

Boeke

Kruger, L. (2020). Of Motherhood and Melancholia: Notebook of a Psycho-ethnographer. Durban: University of Kwa-Zulu Natal Press.

Onderrig

Koördinering van Programme en Modules

  • Voorsitter van Departement Sielkunde: 2019-2021

Voorgraads:

  • Psigopatologie 314 Modulekoördineerder: 2018

Nagraads:

  • Koördineerder Kliniese Program: 2000-2012

Onderriggebiede

Voorgraads:

  • Psigopatologie 314

Honneurs:

  • Toegepaste Gemeenskapsielkunde

Meestersgraad Klinies:

  • Kliniese Evaluering
  • Psigopatologie
  • Psigodinamiese Psigoterapie

Webwerwe en ander relevante skakels

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