Carol Long
Biographic Data
| ID | 3804517 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carol Long |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carol |
| FAMILY NAME | Long |
| SIGNATURE | LONG C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3812-3156 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1997 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The internal world of the supervisor
The supervision relationship is a primary location where supervisors can engage meaningfully with supervisees about issues of race and culture. This paper explores how supervisors navigate this terrain by offering an analysis of interviews conducted with nine South African supervisors, themselves occupying a range of identity positions and working with supervisees who also occupy a range of identity positions. It is important to hear the voices o…
Outside Looking in
A gay identity offers a perspective outside heteronormative narratives characterized by exclusion as well as a radical position of difference. Being a psychotherapist, too, holds complex implications for identity. This paper explores the lived experience of gay male psychotherapists, a group whose voice is seldom heard. Based on interviews with six White South African gay male psychotherapists, a narrative analysis explores their experience of id…
Racial identity and uncertainty in psychotherapy
Despite increasing recognition of the importance of multicultural sensitivity in psychotherapy, studies offering in‐depth exploration of client experiences are relatively rare, and studies exploring both client and therapist perspectives even less common. This paper explores how clients and therapists experience the presence of racial identity in psychotherapy. Eleven client–trainee therapist pairs attending a free clinic in Johannesburg, South A…
Foregrounding fathers
Towards a formulation of the fatherhood constellation
In contrast with Daniel Stern’s extensive work on the motherhood constellation, very little has been written about the fatherhood constellation. In an effort to explore emergent fatherhood and the idea of the fatherhood constellation, psychoanalytic research interviews were conducted with white, middle-class South African fathers of infants. The findings highlight two central themes which offer a way to begin thinking about the nature of the fath…
Racial Difference, Rupture, and Repair
Three Black patients training to be psychotherapists explore experiences of racial difference, rupture and repair with their White psychoanalytic psychotherapists. Therapists often fail to identify moments of rupture, particularly in relation to racial difference. Patient perspectives offer not simply a different voice but a different invitation to dialogue with transformative potential. Patients powerfully describe avoidance, silence, shame, hat…
Voices and Whispers
Voices of privilege and power dominate our profession. In this paper, we reflect on the process of writing together about racially constellated rupture and repair between Black patient/trainee and White therapist. In the project we reflect upon, the Black patient/trainee’s voice was privileged, subverting the more typical voice of the therapist. Furthermore, the project involved a collaboration between Black trainees and White trainer, raising co…
Sharing the Unsharable
The use of a concept
The clinician in the university
There is increasing interest, both internationally and in South Africa, in strengthening the relationship between psychoanalytic practice and research. This paper reports on a psychoanalytically oriented doctoral programme offered at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. The programme is described in relation to the broader context of the historical relationship of psychoanalysis to the university as well as to the specific context…
Governmentality, subjectivity and Aids
In our culture, in our gender
Debates about the relationship between culture and gender, and the potential contradictions involved in simultaneously respecting both multicultural and feminist principles and values, have occupied an important place in theoretical discussion in the social sciences and humanities. This paper examines the relationship between gender and culture from the perspective of the psychotherapeutic encounter in a multicultural society, in this case contem…
Transitioning racialized spaces
The Apartheid Archive Project, heterogeneity, and the psychoanalysis of racism
“I Don't Know Who to Blame”
Women who become HIV infected through heterosexual transmission are faced with the task of making sense of how they became infected. This paper presents a qualitative analysis based on interviews with 35 HIV-positive South African Black women. A specific theme, that blame of a male partner was avoided or disavowed in interviews, is explored in relation to broader contexts concerning gender and HIV. It is suggested that the repeated phrase “I don'…
Contradicting Maternity
I Don't Know Who to Blame”
Women who become HIV infected through heterosexual transmission are faced with the task of making sense of how they became infected. This paper presents a qualitative analysis based on interviews with 35 HIV-positive South African Black women. A specific theme, that blame of a male partner was avoided or disavowed in interviews, is explored in relation to broader contexts concerning gender and HIV. It is suggested that the repeated phrase “I don'…
HIV-Positive Women on Secrets, Condoms and Gendered Conversations
The AIDS epidemic is increasingly recognized as related to gendered power relations, although little research has focused on HIV-positive women themselves. This article presents an analysis of interviews conducted with HIV-positive South African women talking about their heterosexual relationships in the context of HIV. Issues of disclosure of HIV-status, condom use and gendered conversations are explored. The analysis suggests women are constrai…
Chasing Rainbow Notions
This paper discusses tensions and contradictions experienced by a group of psychologists in post‐1994 South Africa as we struggled to develop an MA program in community psychology. Situating our work within the history of the subdiscipline and the historical context confronting South Africans in the “wake of apartheid,” we explore models of community psychology that informed praxis under apartheid and contemporary challenges confronting a country…
III. Speaking for a Change
Discourses, Videos and Talk about Sexual Violence
Over the past few years a number of initiatives against sexual harassment and violence have been launched by large corporations and South African universities, with mixed results. As an active member of one of the first projects of this kind, it became evident to Kottler how severely hampered policy making, education and prevention are by definitional problems and varied gendered and cultural constructions of the issues involved. With a view to a…
Chasing Rainbow Notions
This paper discusses tensions and contradictions experienced by a group of psychologists in post‐1994 South Africa as we struggled to develop an MA program in community psychology. Situating our work within the history of the subdiscipline and the historical context confronting South Africans in the “wake of apartheid,” we explore models of community psychology that informed praxis under apartheid and contemporary challenges confronting a country…
In our culture, in our gender
Debates about the relationship between culture and gender, and the potential contradictions involved in simultaneously respecting both multicultural and feminist principles and values, have occupied an important place in theoretical discussion in the social sciences and humanities. This paper examines the relationship between gender and culture from the perspective of the psychotherapeutic encounter in a multicultural society, in this case contem…
The Apartheid Archive Project, heterogeneity, and the psychoanalysis of racism
I Don't Know Who to Blame”
Women who become HIV infected through heterosexual transmission are faced with the task of making sense of how they became infected. This paper presents a qualitative analysis based on interviews with 35 HIV-positive South African Black women. A specific theme, that blame of a male partner was avoided or disavowed in interviews, is explored in relation to broader contexts concerning gender and HIV. It is suggested that the repeated phrase “I don'…
Towards a formulation of the fatherhood constellation
In contrast with Daniel Stern’s extensive work on the motherhood constellation, very little has been written about the fatherhood constellation. In an effort to explore emergent fatherhood and the idea of the fatherhood constellation, psychoanalytic research interviews were conducted with white, middle-class South African fathers of infants. The findings highlight two central themes which offer a way to begin thinking about the nature of the fath…
Transitioning racialized spaces
Discourses, Videos and Talk about Sexual Violence
Over the past few years a number of initiatives against sexual harassment and violence have been launched by large corporations and South African universities, with mixed results. As an active member of one of the first projects of this kind, it became evident to Kottler how severely hampered policy making, education and prevention are by definitional problems and varied gendered and cultural constructions of the issues involved. With a view to a…
Discourses, Videos and Talk about Sexual Violence
Over the past few years a number of initiatives against sexual harassment and violence have been launched by large corporations and South African universities, with mixed results. As an active member of one of the first projects of this kind, it became evident to Kottler how severely hampered policy making, education and prevention are by definitional problems and varied gendered and cultural constructions of the issues involved. With a view to a…
III. Speaking for a Change
Chasing Rainbow Notions
This paper discusses tensions and contradictions experienced by a group of psychologists in post‐1994 South Africa as we struggled to develop an MA program in community psychology. Situating our work within the history of the subdiscipline and the historical context confronting South Africans in the “wake of apartheid,” we explore models of community psychology that informed praxis under apartheid and contemporary challenges confronting a country…
“I Don't Know Who to Blame”
Women who become HIV infected through heterosexual transmission are faced with the task of making sense of how they became infected. This paper presents a qualitative analysis based on interviews with 35 HIV-positive South African Black women. A specific theme, that blame of a male partner was avoided or disavowed in interviews, is explored in relation to broader contexts concerning gender and HIV. It is suggested that the repeated phrase “I don'…
Contradicting Maternity
I Don't Know Who to Blame”
Women who become HIV infected through heterosexual transmission are faced with the task of making sense of how they became infected. This paper presents a qualitative analysis based on interviews with 35 HIV-positive South African Black women. A specific theme, that blame of a male partner was avoided or disavowed in interviews, is explored in relation to broader contexts concerning gender and HIV. It is suggested that the repeated phrase “I don'…
HIV-Positive Women on Secrets, Condoms and Gendered Conversations
The AIDS epidemic is increasingly recognized as related to gendered power relations, although little research has focused on HIV-positive women themselves. This article presents an analysis of interviews conducted with HIV-positive South African women talking about their heterosexual relationships in the context of HIV. Issues of disclosure of HIV-status, condom use and gendered conversations are explored. The analysis suggests women are constrai…
In our culture, in our gender
Debates about the relationship between culture and gender, and the potential contradictions involved in simultaneously respecting both multicultural and feminist principles and values, have occupied an important place in theoretical discussion in the social sciences and humanities. This paper examines the relationship between gender and culture from the perspective of the psychotherapeutic encounter in a multicultural society, in this case contem…
Transitioning racialized spaces
The Apartheid Archive Project, heterogeneity, and the psychoanalysis of racism
Governmentality, subjectivity and Aids
The use of a concept
The clinician in the university
There is increasing interest, both internationally and in South Africa, in strengthening the relationship between psychoanalytic practice and research. This paper reports on a psychoanalytically oriented doctoral programme offered at the University of the Witwatersrand in South Africa. The programme is described in relation to the broader context of the historical relationship of psychoanalysis to the university as well as to the specific context…
Racial Difference, Rupture, and Repair
Three Black patients training to be psychotherapists explore experiences of racial difference, rupture and repair with their White psychoanalytic psychotherapists. Therapists often fail to identify moments of rupture, particularly in relation to racial difference. Patient perspectives offer not simply a different voice but a different invitation to dialogue with transformative potential. Patients powerfully describe avoidance, silence, shame, hat…
Voices and Whispers
Voices of privilege and power dominate our profession. In this paper, we reflect on the process of writing together about racially constellated rupture and repair between Black patient/trainee and White therapist. In the project we reflect upon, the Black patient/trainee’s voice was privileged, subverting the more typical voice of the therapist. Furthermore, the project involved a collaboration between Black trainees and White trainer, raising co…
Sharing the Unsharable
Towards a formulation of the fatherhood constellation
In contrast with Daniel Stern’s extensive work on the motherhood constellation, very little has been written about the fatherhood constellation. In an effort to explore emergent fatherhood and the idea of the fatherhood constellation, psychoanalytic research interviews were conducted with white, middle-class South African fathers of infants. The findings highlight two central themes which offer a way to begin thinking about the nature of the fath…
Racial identity and uncertainty in psychotherapy
Despite increasing recognition of the importance of multicultural sensitivity in psychotherapy, studies offering in‐depth exploration of client experiences are relatively rare, and studies exploring both client and therapist perspectives even less common. This paper explores how clients and therapists experience the presence of racial identity in psychotherapy. Eleven client–trainee therapist pairs attending a free clinic in Johannesburg, South A…
Foregrounding fathers
Outside Looking in
A gay identity offers a perspective outside heteronormative narratives characterized by exclusion as well as a radical position of difference. Being a psychotherapist, too, holds complex implications for identity. This paper explores the lived experience of gay male psychotherapists, a group whose voice is seldom heard. Based on interviews with six White South African gay male psychotherapists, a narrative analysis explores their experience of id…
The internal world of the supervisor
The supervision relationship is a primary location where supervisors can engage meaningfully with supervisees about issues of race and culture. This paper explores how supervisors navigate this terrain by offering an analysis of interviews conducted with nine South African supervisors, themselves occupying a range of identity positions and working with supervisees who also occupy a range of identity positions. It is important to hear the voices o…
Sociology (19 works) · Psychology (18 works) · Gender Studies (14 works) · Social Psychology (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Psychoanalysis (9 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (9 works) · Art (7 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (7 works) · Aesthetics (6 works)