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OverviewApartheid and its resistance come to life in this memoir making it a vital historical document of its time and for our own. In 1969, while a student in South Africa, John Schlapobersky was arrested for opposing apartheid and tortured, detained and eventually deported. Interrogated through sleep deprivation, he later wrote secretly in solitary confinement about the struggle for survival. Those writings inform this exquisitely written book in which the author reflects on the singing of the condemned prisoners, the poetry, songs and texts that saw him through his ordeal, and its impact. This sense of hope through which he transformed his life guides his continuing work as a psychotherapist and his focus on the rehabilitation of others. “[T]hetale of an ordinary young man swept one day from his life into hell, testimony to the wickedness a political system let loose in its agents and, above all, an intimate account of how a man became a healer.”—Jonny Steinberg, Oxford University From the introduction: I was supposed to be a man by the time I turned 21, by anyone’s reckoning. By the apartheid regime’s reckoning, I was also old enough to be tortured. Looking back, I can recognize the boy I was. The eldest of my grandchildren is now approaching this age, and I would never want to see her or the others – or indeed anyone else – having to face any such ordeal. At the time my home was in Johannesburg, only some thirty miles from Pretoria, where I was thrown into a world that few would believe existed, populated by creatures from the darkest places, creatures of the night, some in uniform. I was there for fifty-five days, and never went home again. Full Product DetailsAuthor: John R. Schlapobersky , Albie SachsPublisher: Berghahn Books Imprint: Berghahn Books ISBN: 9781789209082ISBN 10: 1789209080 Pages: 248 Publication Date: 14 May 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Foreword Albie Sachs Prologue Introduction: The Years Before The Days Arrest: University of the Witwatersrand Interrogation I: Swanepoel in Compol Building Solitary Confinement: The Hanging Jail Interrogation II: Johan Coetzee Signing the Statement and Negotiating Release Release Epilogue Afterword: Memory and Testimony Acknowledgements Appendix 1: Arrest Warrant, English Translation Appendix 2: The Sword and the Ploughshare: The Terrorism Act and the Bill of Rights Appendix 3: Principles for the Political Applications of Psychotherapy Bibliography IndexReviewsA chilling, gripping, harrowing reminder of the evil nightmare that was the apartheid police state - and the brave people like John who resisted it. * Lord Peter Hain Author InformationJohn R. Schlapobersky is a leading psychotherapist and author based in London. He is a training analyst at the Institute of Group Analysis and was a Founding Trustee of Freedom from Torture in 1985. Publications include From The Couch To The Circle: Group-Analytic Psychotherapy In Practice (Routledge, 2016), which won the American Group Psychotherapy Association’s Alonso Award in 2017 and is in translation to other language editions. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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