ABSTRACT

In 1975, at the age of 65, Dr Maatje Vera Bührmann began a decade-long cross-cultural psychiatry research project in the former Ciskei in which she used a Jungian framework to explicate the methods of a Xhosa igqira (healer). From this work, for which she continues to be widely lauded in some circles, a mythology arose which portrays her as an exemplar of someone who transcended the racial politics of the radical Afrikaner nationalism she had embraced in the 1940s. In this article I present evidence from her writings and associated archival sources that challenges this view.

中文翻译：

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VeraBührmann博士（1910–1998）：从Volksmoeder到Igqira？重新审视了一个流行的神话

摘要

1975年，当时65岁的Maatje VeraBührmann博士在前Ciskei开展了长达十年的跨文化精神病学研究项目，在该项目中，她使用Jungian框架阐明了Xhosa igqira（修复者）的方法。通过这项工作，她在一些圈子中继续受到广泛赞誉，由此产生了一种神话，将她描绘成一个人的典范，他超越了她在1940年代拥护的激进的南非荷兰人民族主义的种族政治。在本文中，我提供了来自她的著作和相关档案资料的证据，这些证据对这一观点提出了挑战。