Professor Lou-Marié Kruger obtained an M.Soc.Sci. (Political Studies) from the University of Cape Town (1989) and a PhD (Clinical Psychology) from Boston University (1996). She completed an American Psychological Association accredited internship for Clinical Psychology at Massachusetts Mental Health Center, Harvard Medical School (July 1996 – June 1997). Currently she is co-ordinating the postgraduate programme in Clinical Psychology and Community Psychology at Stellenbosch University in South Africa and is in private practice. In her research, she focuses on the emotional worlds of low-income South African mothers, utilising mainly psychoanalytic, feminist and postmodern theoretical frameworks.

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