Degrees Held

• Bachelor of Arts (University of Natal, Durban)
• Bachelor of Arts Honours in Psychology (Rhodes University)
• Master of Arts in Psychology (University of Natal, Durban)
• PhD in Clinical Psychology (University of KwaZulu-Natal, Durban) Dissertation: Identity, PTSD & Psychotherapy with policemen during the transition from apartheid to post-apartheid South Africa

Research Interests

• Psychoanalytical theory & practice and its relevance to the South African context
• Psychodynamic psychotherapy
• Psychotherapeutic skills
• Psychoanalytic research methods
• Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
• https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Sharon_Auld

Teaching Interests

Psychodynamic psychotherapy

Journal Articles

• Auld, S.M. & Cartwright, D.J (2019). The social construction of PTSD: The case of the ‘old guard’ policemen after South African democracy, Culture, Medicine, and Psychiatry, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11013-019-09649-2
• Auld, S.M. & Cartwright, D.J. (2018). Hiding behind culture: Using social defense systems to explore the malaise of the “old guard” in post-apartheid South Africa, Psychoanalysis, Culture & Society. 56, 23-45.

Community Involvement

• UKZN Psychology Clinic
• Long-term individual psychotherapeutic work
• Clinical supervision of community casework.

Teaching Expertise

• Introduction to Psychology (PSYC101 & PSYC102)
• Counselling & Psychotherapeutics (PSYC342)
• Neuropsychology (PSYC322)
• Counselling & Therapeutics (PSYC703)
• Morrison’s “The First Interview” (PSYC806)

Student Supervision

Masters

• Clinical casework supervision