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Biography

Dr. Leswin Laubscher counts teaching, research, and clinical experience as a psychologist in both the United States and South Africa. He holds degrees from Northwestern University in Evanston, and the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. Recent research interests and publications have examined the intersection of culture and psychology, apartheid and psychology, and the importance of the philosophies of Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Levinas, and Frantz Fanon for psychology.

Dr. Laubscher has also held honorary and external appointments in addition to that at Duquesne, for example at the University of Stellenbosch in South Africa, and currently as Extraordinary Professor at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa.

Education

Ph.D., Counseling Psychology, Northwestern University, 1995
M. Psych., Counseling and Clinical Psychology, University of the Western Cape
B.A. Hons., Psychology, University of the Western Cape
B.A., Afrikaans, English, Psychology, University of the Western Cape

Research Interests or Expertise

  • Philosophical Psychology (Emmanuel Levinas, Jacques Derrida
  • Poststructuralism
  • Hermeneutics
  • Qualitative and Interpretative Research
  • Cultural Psychology
  • Psychoanalysis
  • Psychotherapy

School

Undergraduate Courses

  • Science, Psychology, and the Holocaust, (Spring Break Away)
  • Psychology of Personality
  • Introduction to Psychology as a Human Science

Graduate Courses

  • Psychology and Cultural Diversity
  • Philosophical Psychology-Levinas
  • Philosophical Psychology-Derrida

Publications
(Only recent publications are listed - a more comprehensive, archival list of faculty publications can be found here)

Hook, D., & Laubscher, L. (Eds.) (2024). Darkest before dawn: Writings, Testimonies and Correspondence from the life of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe. University of the Witwatersrand Press.

Laubscher, L. (2024). Some sound, some fury, signifying very little: Frantz Fanon and psychological scholarship in South Africa. South African Journal of Psychology, OnlineFirst: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/00812463241287141 .

Hook, D., & Laubscher, L. (2024). The Sun here is Scorching: Sobukwe, Kimberley, 1969-1978, In D. Hook & L. Laubscher (Eds.), Darkest before dawn: Writings, Testimonies and Correspondence from the life of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe. University of the Witwatersrand Press.

Hook, D., & Laubscher, L. (2024). Hearing Sobukwe, In D. Hook & L. Laubscher (Eds.), Darkest before dawn: Writings, Testimonies and Correspondence from the life of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe. University of the Witwatersrand Press.

Hook, D., & Laubscher, L. (2024). The Afterlife of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe, In D. Hook & L. Laubscher (Eds.), Darkest before dawn: Writings, Testimonies and Correspondence from the life of Robert Mangaliso Sobukwe. University of the Witwatersrand Press.

Laubscher, L. (2023). Levinas for Psychologists. Routledge.

Desai, M., Laubscher, L., & Johnson, S. (2022) Perspectives (of people of color) on psychological science: Does psychological science listen? Review of General Psychology, 27(2), 155-163.

Laubscher, L., Hook, D., & Desai, M. (Eds.) (2021). Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology. Routledge.

Laubscher, L., Hook, D., & Desai, M. (2021). Of bodies that matter. In Laubscher, L., D. Hook, & M. Desai (Eds.), Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology. Routledge.

Laubscher. L., & Mbuqe, S. (2020).  A Case Study of 'Necklacing': When the Case has a Face. Psychology in Society, 59, 66-85.

Laubscher, L. (2016). Introduction to Psychology as a Human Science. Cognella Publishers.

Fischer, C., Laubscher, L., & Brooke, R. (Eds.) (2016). The Qualitative Vision for Psychology: An Invitation to a Human Science Approach. Duquesne University Press.

Laubscher, L. (2014). Tolbos deur Irma Joubert-'n Soeke na Tuiskoms. Litnet. doi: http://www.litnet.co.za/tolbos-deur-irma-joubert-n-soeke-na-tuiskoms/