The universality of infant-parent psychotherapy - a South African model

Professor Astrid Berg is a Psychiatrist, Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist as well as an Analyst. She is an Associate Professor at the University of Cape Town and a senior consultant in the Division of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry at the Red Cross Children’s Hospital in Cape Town where she heads the UCT Parent-Infant Mental Health Service.

Astrid has been involved in working in a community in Cape Town since 1995 where she is in charge of a weekly mother-baby mental health clinic. She has written about this work and presented it extensively internationally. Her particular interest is in inter-cultural communication