When They Came for Me

The Hidden Diary of an Apartheid Prisoner
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-78920-906-8
Verlag: Berghahn Books

Buch, Englisch, 248 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 518 g

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.  In this exquisitely written memoir, 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.  Apartheid and its resistance come to life in this story to make it a vital historical document, one of its time and one for our own.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Schlapobersky, John R.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Afrikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein Biographien & Autobiographien: Historisch, Politisch, Militärisch
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Gewalt Politische Unterdrückung & Verfolgung
• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politische Kultur Menschenrechte, Bürgerrechte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List 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

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Schlapobersky, John R.
John 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.