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An object relations perspective on accounts of traumatisation among a group of Black South African National Defence Force soldiers
Thesis (PhD (Psychology))--University of Pretoria, 2020.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/80662 An object relations perspective on accounts of traumatisation among a group of Black South African National Defence Force soldiers Guse, Tharina sharon.sibanda@up.ac.za Chigeza, Shingairai Sibanda, Sharon UCTD Military trauma in South Africa manifest in enduring undiagnosed PTSD undiagnosed PTSD psychic and relational disintegration chronic combat trauma object relations theory (ORT) Thesis (PhD (Psychology))--University of Pretoria, 2020. This study explored the lived experience of traumatisation manifesting as enduring undiagnosed post- traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) on the overall psychological functioning of members currently serving in the South African National Defence Force (SANDF) from an object-relations perspective. A qualitative approach with a phenomenological study design using semi-structured interviews and self- report questionnaires to gather data was employed. Prominent themes formed the content for interpretative phenomenological analysis (IPA) from an object-relations perspective on pathology in relation to untreated trauma of the psyche. The findings indicated that servicemen and women in the SANDF lived in a chronic state of psychic, occupational and relational disintegration. Recurrence of reactivated past unresolved traumas experienced in dreams, troubled sleep and internal conflict were characterised by annihilation anxiety, psychic numbing and repression. Further, there was a chronic sense of loss of the self through loss of good internal and external self-objects as well as in meaning of life and work as a soldier. The findings further revealed overall functional paralysis as evidenced in these SANDF members’continued psychological deterioration, which manifested in irreversible damage to character and cognitive deficits linked to chronic trauma in the form of undiagnosed PTSD. Psychology PhD (Psychology) Unrestricted 2021-07-01T08:11:44Z 2021-07-01T08:11:44Z 2021-09 2020-07 Thesis Sibanda, SB 2021, An object relations perspective on accounts of traumatisation among a group of Black South African National Defence Force soldiers, PhD thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd http://hdl.handle.net/2263/80662 S2021 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/80662 en © 2019 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Military trauma in South Africa manifest in enduring undiagnosed PTSD undiagnosed PTSD psychic and relational disintegration chronic combat trauma object relations theory (ORT) An object relations perspective on accounts of traumatisation among a group of Black South African National Defence Force soldiers |
| title | An object relations perspective on accounts of traumatisation among a group of Black South African National Defence Force soldiers |
| title_full | An object relations perspective on accounts of traumatisation among a group of Black South African National Defence Force soldiers |
| title_fullStr | An object relations perspective on accounts of traumatisation among a group of Black South African National Defence Force soldiers |
| title_full_unstemmed | An object relations perspective on accounts of traumatisation among a group of Black South African National Defence Force soldiers |
| title_short | An object relations perspective on accounts of traumatisation among a group of Black South African National Defence Force soldiers |
| title_sort | object relations perspective on accounts of traumatisation among a group of black south african national defence force soldiers |
| topic | UCTD Military trauma in South Africa manifest in enduring undiagnosed PTSD undiagnosed PTSD psychic and relational disintegration chronic combat trauma object relations theory (ORT) |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/80662 |