Dr. Kgamadi Kometsi (Clinical Psychologist)
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Dr. Kgamadi Kometsi is a Clinical Psychologist, with a background of teaching both at the universities of Cape Town and Wits. His research interests include race, racism, racial identities, gender, sexualities and HIV and AIDS. In particular, he is interested in using the psychodynamic lens to explore social dynamics in relation to these fields of interest. His academic project lies in resuscitating the role of an individual in social processes that tend to privilege the role of the group. He is a keen ethnographer, using his training as a psychologist to read social processes in search for more sophisticated explanations to the human situation. Having completed an interdisciplinary PhD at WISER, Wits, in 2008, he has presented widely, both in South Africa and internationally on race, discrimination and human rights, and has published in peer reviewed journals on these subjects and on transformation.
In his position as Chair of School Transformation Committee at Wits University, his role was to advance transformation, equality and the value of diversity both within the school and the wider university. Following that, his major project at the SAHRC has been the development of the National Action Plan to combat racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance. He has also participated in international workshops meant to assist countries which are still struggling to develop this instrument.
Dr. Kometsi’s clinical work and interest cover the following areas:
- Individual psychotherapy
- Couples counselling
- Pre-marital counselling
- Family therapy
- Child psychotherapy
- Group psychotherapy
- Trauma debriefing
- Clinical and research supervision
- Organizational psychodiagnostics
- Psycho-education
