Citation

Yen J, Vaccarino O. J. Health Psychol. 2018; 23(3): 408-424.

Affiliation

University of Guelph, Canada.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, SAGE Publishing)

DOI

10.1177/1359105317708201

PMID

28810453

Abstract

In contrast to the institutionalization of health psychology in North America and Europe, much psychological work on health issues in South Africa emerged as part of a critical revitalization of South African psychology as a whole, coinciding with the dismantling of Apartheid and global shifts in health discourse. The field's development reflects attempts to engage with urgent health problems in the context of rapid sociopolitical changes that followed democratic transition in the 1990s, and under new conditions of knowledge production. We provide an account of these issues, as well as reflections on the field's future, as inflected through the experiences of 12 South African psychologists whose careers span the emergence of health-related psychology to the present day.

Language: en

Keywords

South Africa; apartheid; critical psychology; health psychology; oral history