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Professor Mark Solms leads the Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud

Professor Marks Solms is the executive editor of the recently published Revised Standard Edition of the Complete Psychological Works of Sigmund Freud, a groundbreaking 24-volume revision of the original Standard Edition.

Eyewitness Research Group runs 11th Annual Face Science Symposium

The Eyewitness Research Group in the UCT Psychology Department's Acsent Lab hosted its annual interdisciplinary ‘Face Science symposium’ in November 2023.

Assoc. Prof. Debbie Kaminer leads new policy briefing paper for International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies

Assoc. Prof. Debbie Kaminer is the lead author of a new policy briefing paper from the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS).

Prof. Wahbie Long delivers lecture at the Collège de France.

At a June 2023 colloquium on “Loneliness in the Crowd,” Professor Wahbie Long delivered a lecture, titled Finding the Other: Thoughts on Recognition and the Stranger Within.

PhD candidate gives keynote address at the Healing the Brain Conference

In November 2023, PhD student Stijn de Leeuw gave a keynote address about the community perspective on the importance of early life mental health programmes and research at the Healing the Brain conference in Nairobi. Kenya.

CONGRATULATIONS TO THE 2022 CLASS MEDALLISTS!

Congratulations to all the students who achieved class medals in Psychology courses in 2022.

ACSENT Sleep Team Presents at the World Sleep Congress in Brazil

A/Prof Gosia Lipinska and her MA Neuropsychology student Celine le Roux present their work at the World Sleep Conference 2023 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Prof Cathy Ward & Prof Floretta Boonzaier

Two UCT Psychology Dept Professors honoured at 2023 Women in Science Awards.

We are very proud of Profs. Floretta Boonzaier and Cathy Ward, who were respectively a finalist and winner of the 2023 South African Women in Science Awards.

Masters and PhD Psychology students on international exchange at Bergen University

The UCT Psychology department has received three years of Erasmus Plus funding for postgraduate students to spend a semester at the Psychology Dept at Bergen University in Norway.

2021 Psychology class medalists

Congratulations to the class medallists of 2021!

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