Community phantasies: Psychodynamic musings on a service learning community intervention:Kristy , Debbie, Christine, Christina & Janine

The Children in Community (CHIC) group is made up five Masters students currently registered in the School of Psychology at the University of KwaZulu-Natal, Pietermartizburg. Kristy Greener and Christine McLachlan are Clinical Psychology M1 students; Christina Mitchell and Debbie Marais are Counselling Psychology M1 students; and Janine Upton is a Research Psychology Masters student. There are two levels to this presentation. On the surface is a community project that involved the goals and outcomes of multiple stakeholders. Below the surface lies the messy subliminal text of community work, which will unfold in the subtext of this presentation.