Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics 9781786600936, 9781786600950
The revolutionary and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon was a foundational figure in postcolonial and decolonial thought and pra
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English Pages 322 Year 2017
Table of contents :
Foreword Alice Cherki / Introduction / 1. The Thoughts of a Young Psychiatrist on Race, Social Psychiatry, Theories of Madness and 'the Human Condition' / 2. The Political Phenomenology of the Body and Black Disalienation / 3. The Ends of Colonial Psychiatry and the Birth of a Critical Ethnopsychiatry / 4. Suspect Bodies: A Phenomenology of Colonial Experience / 5. Further Steps Towards a Critical Ethnopsychiatry: Sociotherapy: Its Strengths and Weaknesses / 6. The Impossibility of Mental Health in a Colonial Society: Fanon Joins the FLN / 7. Psychiatry, Violence, and Revolution: Body and Mind in Context / 8. The Tunis Psychiatric Day Hospital / 9. Bitter Orange: The Consequences of an Anticolonial War / 10. From Colonial to Postcolonial Disorders, or the Psychic Life of History / 11. A Note on Translating Frantz Fanon Lisa Damon / Bibliography
Foreword Alice Cherki / Introduction / 1. The Thoughts of a Young Psychiatrist on Race, Social Psychiatry, Theories of Madness and 'the Human Condition' / 2. The Political Phenomenology of the Body and Black Disalienation / 3. The Ends of Colonial Psychiatry and the Birth of a Critical Ethnopsychiatry / 4. Suspect Bodies: A Phenomenology of Colonial Experience / 5. Further Steps Towards a Critical Ethnopsychiatry: Sociotherapy: Its Strengths and Weaknesses / 6. The Impossibility of Mental Health in a Colonial Society: Fanon Joins the FLN / 7. Psychiatry, Violence, and Revolution: Body and Mind in Context / 8. The Tunis Psychiatric Day Hospital / 9. Bitter Orange: The Consequences of an Anticolonial War / 10. From Colonial to Postcolonial Disorders, or the Psychic Life of History / 11. A Note on Translating Frantz Fanon Lisa Damon / Bibliography
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