| The black insane in the Cape, 1891–1920 S Swartz Journal of Southern African Studies 21 (3), 399-415, 1995 | 94 | 1995 |
| Can the clinical subject speak? Some thoughts on subaltern psychology S Swartz Theory & Psychology 15 (4), 505-525, 2005 | 69 | 2005 |
| IV. Lost Lives: Gender, History and Mental Illness in the Cape, 1891-1910 S Swartz Feminism & Psychology 9 (2), 152-158, 1999 | 48 | 1999 |
| Homeless wanderers: Movement and mental illness in the Cape Colony in the nineteenth century S Swartz Juta and Company (Pty) Ltd, 2015 | 46 | 2015 |
| The regulation of British colonial lunatic asylums and the origins of colonial psychiatry, 1860–1864. S Swartz History of Psychology 13 (2), 160, 2010 | 45 | 2010 |
| The power to name: South African intersubjective psychoanalytic psychotherapy and the negotiation of racialized histories S Swartz European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling 9 (2), 177-190, 2007 | 44 | 2007 |
| Rites of passage: Identity and the training of clinical psychologists in the current South African context A Kottler, S Swartz South African Journal of Psychology 34 (1), 55-71, 2004 | 44 | 2004 |
| Colonizing the insane: Causes of insanity in the Cape, 1891-1920 S Swartz History of the Human Sciences 8 (4), 39-57, 1995 | 41 | 1995 |
| The third voice: Writing case-notes S Swartz Feminism & Psychology 16 (4), 427-444, 2006 | 39 | 2006 |
| Ruthless Winnicott: The role of ruthlessness in psychoanalysis and political protest S Swartz Routledge, 2018 | 38 | 2018 |
| Shrinking: A postmodern perspective on psychiatric case histories S Swartz South African Journal of Psychology 26 (3), 150-156, 1996 | 38 | 1996 |
| Feminism and psychiatric diagnosis: Reflections of a feminist practitioner S Swartz Feminism & Psychology 23 (1), 41-48, 2013 | 36 | 2013 |
| Colonial lunatic asylum archives: Challenges to historiography S Swartz Kronos 34 (1), 285-302, 2008 | 35 | 2008 |
| An English asylum in Africa: Space and order in Valkenberg Asylum. J Louw, S Swartz History of Psychology 4 (1), 3, 2001 | 33 | 2001 |
| Clinical psychology and the 1985 crisis in Cape Town S Swartz, T Dowdall, L Swartz Psychology in Society 5, 131-138, 1986 | 33 | 1986 |
| Colonialism and the production of psychiatric knowledge in the Cape, 1891-1920 S Swartz | 32 | 1996 |
| Changing diagnoses in Valkenberg Asylum, Cape Colony, 1891-1920: a longitudinal view S Swartz History of Psychiatry 6 (24), 431-451, 1995 | 32 | 1995 |
| State violence in South Africa and the development of a progressive psychology L Swartz, K Gibson, S Swartz Political violence and the struggle in South Africa, 234-264, 1990 | 32 | 1990 |
| The broken mirror: Difference and shame in South African psychotherapy S Swartz International Journal of Psychoanalytic Self Psychology 7 (2), 196-212, 2012 | 26 | 2012 |
| Talk about talk: Metacommentary and context in the analysis of psychotic discourse S Swartz, L Swartz Culture, medicine and psychiatry 11 (4), 395-416, 1987 | 26 | 1987 |
