Ms Ruby Patel

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Lecturer in Psychology

Bachelor of Arts – University of the Witwatersrand
Bachelor of Arts (Honours) - University of the Witwatersrand
Master of Arts (Counselling Psychology) - University of the Witwatersrand

email: r.patel@ru.ac.za

Registered with the HPCSA as a Counselling Psychologist

Teaching Area 

• Developmental & Personality Psychology  
• Psychometrics
• Health Psychology
• Community Psychology
• Psychopathology
• Hnrs - Clinical Assessment
• MA Clinical Assessment practise and supervision
• Clinical Supervision – Psychoanalytic

Research Interests

Critical Health Psychology particularly in the area of HIV/AIDS

• Medical Discourse and Power
• Power and Politics of ARV treatment
• Construction of the diseased body and identity
• Mental Health and Counselling

Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy

• Early infant attachment, infant observation
• The therapeutic relationship in play therapy with a focus on transference and   counter-transferences
• The role of the father in early childhood development
• Personality Pathology