Derek Botha

Rhodes University | RU · Department of Psychology

In this article are compared the underpinning beliefs, ideas, and practices between Tibetan Buddhist philosophies, with Western understandings about mental suffering in living, and the nature of contextual issues that structure the recovery from such suffering. On the basis of this undertaking, in the study were explored the similarities and relati...

This article proposes alternative understandings of certain structuralist informed (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-DSM-IIIrd to 5th Eds.) configurations of mental disorders. Life's negative discourses and the mind's captive responses present a "general theory of mental suffering" which phenomena are classified as modernist, D...

The purpose of this article is to apply innovative analogue and digital thinking processes that, first, negate DSM (III to 5th Eds.) understandings of anorexia, and then formulate a bases which encapsulates alternative understandings of the universal patterns of behavior, understandings that honour and embrace the patterns of behavior expressed by...

This article draws on notions of negative and positive resistances in exploring alternative understandings of ‘anorexia’, in a narrative therapy based approach for ‘anorexic’ adolescents. In doing so, it posits ‘anorexic’ lifestyles as forms of coping mechanisms against dominant social discourses. Narrative treatment is to facilitate a movement awa...

The maximisation of shareholders’ wealth as the primary goal of the firm is the cornerstone of modern financial theory which has its source mainly from USA. The South African corporate economy has significantly different characteristics compared with that of the USA. The article notes that the Japanese corporate economy, with its keiretsu groupings...

This is a response to critical comments by Van Der Honert & Barr (1997), reported in this volume, relating to an earlier paper (Botha 1995). Van Der Honert & Barr assert that two blemishes in the reasoning and the model need to be ‘...rigorously addressed and resolved’. This reply argues and submits that Van Der Honert & Ban have not only attribute...

In South Africa there have been no prosecutions for insider trading, emanating either from the original provisions of the Companies Act, 1973, or the subsequent amendments, in terms of which this activity has been criminalised. In an attempt to facilitate both the interpretation of recently introduced provisions of insider trading legislation (s440...

Anorexia nervosa is currently presented as a pathologised, psycho-medical feminine phenomenon through aetiological rationalisations and theories. Research results indicate that there have been no improvements in treatment outcomes for anorexia for over 50 years, except, possibly, with forms of family therapy for adolescents. This situation can be s...

An exploration of the literature was undertaken on the question of whether or not bereavement after suicide, as opposed to other modes of death, renders individuals more susceptible to enduring and complicated grief reactions. The literature from qualitative research indicated that there appeared to be a greater prevalence of individual and context...

Psychotherapeutic treatment for anorexia nervosa: Modernist, structural treatment approaches, and a post-structuralist perspective. Counselling, Psychotherapy, and Health, 5(1), 1-46.

A review of the published research literature that examined the consequences of anticipatory grief on post-death bereavement adjustment, found conflicting results. An analysis of the literature suggested that conceptualisation matters, the lack of a precise and consistent operational definition, along with a number of methodological issues were the...

Most empirical research on immunisation has not considered such issues as, for instance, transaction costs, nor has the convexity of portfolios been quantified. Furthermore, this research has been based on data from overseas capital markets. An important study using South African data tended to be ‘theoretical’. This article attempts to overcome th...

Typescript (photocopy) Summary in Afrikaans and English. Thesis (D.Com.)--University of Port Elizabeth, 1985. Bibliography: annexure D-1 - D-27.

Thesis (M.Com.)--Pretoria, University of South Africa, 1978.