Ph.D. (UCT)

RESEARCH PROFILE

Wahbie Long, Ph.D. is a clinical psychologist and professor in the Department of Psychology at the University of Cape Town.

Widely published on the history, theory, and indigenization of psychology, his latest book is Nation on the Couch: Inside South Africa’s Mind (MF Books, 2021), which draws on psychoanalytic theory to understand social problems in South Africa.

He teaches an Honours module on philosophical and theoretical issues in psychology and a Clinical Masters module on critical theory.

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Bhatia, S., Long, W., Pickren, W. & Rutherford, A. (2024). Engaging with decoloniality, decolonization, and histories of psychology otherwise. In L. Comas-Díaz, H.Y. Adames and N.Y. Chavez-Dueñas (Eds.), Decolonial psychology: Toward anticolonial theories, research, training, and practice (pp. 59-85). American Psychological Association.

Long, W. (2021). Nation on the couch: Inside South Africa’s mind. MF Books.

Long, W. (2019). Indigenous psychology: Going nowhere slowly? Journal of Theoretical and Philosophical Psychology, 39(2), 115-119.

Long, W. (2018). Decolonising higher education: Postcolonial theory and the invisible hand of student politics. New Agenda, 69, 20-25.

Long, W. (2017). Alienation: A new orienting principle for psychotherapists in South Africa. Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in South Africa, 25(1), 67-90.

Long, W. (2017). Essence or experience? A new direction for African psychology. Theory and Psychology, 27(3), 293-312.

Long, W. (2016). A history of ‘relevance’ in psychology. Palgrave Macmillan.

Long, W. (2016). Psychology in South Africa and the end of history. History of Psychology, 19(3), 220-228.

Long, W. (2014). The rhetoric of racism: Revisiting the creation of the Psychological Institute of the Republic of South Africa (1956-1962). Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences, 50(4), 339-358.

Long, W. (2014). White psychologists only: The rise and fall of the Psychological Institute of the Republic of South Africa. History of the Human Sciences, 27(4), 139-154.

Long, W. (2014). Understanding ‘relevance’ in psychology. New Ideas in Psychology, 35, 28-35.

Long, W. (2013). Rethinking ‘relevance’: South African psychology in context. History of Psychology, 16(1), 19-35.