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Transactional Analysis Holds Promise for Healing Trauma and Building Resilience at a Societal Level

Pages 268-272
Published online: 28 Dec 2017
 
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This article is an edited version of the opening address given by Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, MP, to the World Transactional Analysis Conference on 7 August 2008 in Johannesburg, South Africa. Madlala-Routledge, a Quaker, served as Deputy Minister of Defense and then Deputy Minister of Health before being dismissed by President Thabo Mbeki for her outspoken views about HIV/AIDS. She is currently Deputy Speaker of Parliament under recently elected President Kgalema Motlanthe. In this article Madlala-Routledge reflects on the traumatic past of South Africa and the need for personal and social healing and welcomes the role that transactional analysis could play in contributing to that process. She also looks at the importance of social and psychological factors in the health of individuals and societies and the need for an integrative approach such as the one transactional analysis might provide.

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Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge

Nozizwe Madlala-Routledge, MP, was elected to Parliament in 1994 in South Africa's first democratic election. She served first as Deputy Minister of Defense and then Deputy Minister of Health in President Thabo Mbeki's cabinet. Having been dismissed by him for her outspoken criticism of the government's approach to HIV/AIDS and her concerns about high infant mortality rates in some of South Africa's hospitals, she returned to the back benches. She has recently been appointed Deputy Speaker of Parliament in the new cabinet appointments made by recently elected President Kgalema Motlanthe. Nozizwe has a degree in sociology and philosophy and diplomas in medical technology and adult education. She is currently registered at the University of Cape Town to do a master' degree in philosophy. She can be reached at .