Sue Levy

Clinical Psychologist and Psychoanalyst

Sue Levy is a Clinical Psychologist and an IPA Training Psychoanalyst for the South African Psychoanalytical Association (SAPA)
Together with Heather Jones Petersen, Sue is the co-director of the South African Psychoanalytic Clinics – Johannesburg, which offers individual and group psychotherapy to South Africans unable to afford private rates. Given the history of apartheid almost all the work at the Clinic is trauma based.
Sue has co-edited a text on trauma with Alessandra Lemma: The Perversion of Loss: Psychoanalytic Reflections on Trauma. She also has a chapter in the most recent Tavistock edition: Complex Trauma edited by Jo Stubley and Linda Young.
Sue has a long standing commitment to working with the issues of race and racialisation and how apartheid trauma has shaped these dynamics.
Her current interest is in the relationship between Trauma and Corruption, both on the macro political level but also at the individual intra psychic level.