by Rafiq Lockhat
I often see patients referred by their physicians and cardiologists after suffering a heart attack or having undergone open-heart surgery because their doctors are at their wits’ end about how to enforce post-operation treatment compliance. These people usually...
by Rafiq Lockhat
On the news the other day they were discussing the suicide of a teenager when the announcer said suicide is now the second biggest cause of teen deaths in South Africa. Disturbing as this is, it did not surprise me. In 1986, when I was a psychology intern, I worked at...
by Rafiq Lockhat
Last week I wrote about psychologist Erik Erikson’s theory of “life crises” and his interest in how our interactions with our environment shape our personality. We explored the first three of his eight stages of psychosocial development. This week I...
by Rafiq Lockhat
I saw a patient a last week who is a competent, attractive, professional woman of 31. She has been living with her 29-year-old boyfriend for the past two years. They have a baby of six months and have been going out for five years. She came to see me because she is...
by Rafiq Lockhat
I consulted with a 65-year-old woman some time ago. For 42 years she had been involved in a relationship with a man she described as “beautiful”. He had died from colon cancer a few weeks prior to her seeing me. She was lonely and missing him terribly. I...
