Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics

Informationen zum Autor Nigel C. Gibson is Associate Professor of Postcolonial Studies at Emerson College. He is author of Fanon: The Postcolonial Imagination (2003) and Fanonian Practices in South Africa (2014), and the editor of Rethinking Fanon (1999) and Living Fanon (2011). He is the editor of the Journal of Asian and African Studies. Klappentext Frantz Fanon was a foundational figure in postcolonial and decolonial thought, yet his medical work has only been studied peripherally. With a focus on Fanon's key psychiatry texts, Frantz Fanon: Psychiatry and Politics considers Fanon's medical writings as materials anticipating as well as accompanying Fanon's better-known work. Zusammenfassung Frantz Fanon was a foundational figure in postcolonial and decolonial thought! yet his medical work has only been studied peripherally. With a focus on Fanon's key psychiatry texts! Frantz Fanon: Psychiatry and Politics considers Fanon's medical writings as materials anticipating as well as accompanying Fanon's better known work.

Klappentext

Frantz Fanon was a foundational figure in postcolonial and decolonial thought, yet his medical work has only been studied peripherally. With a focus on Fanon's key psychiatry texts, Frantz Fanon: Psychiatry and Politics considers Fanon's medical writings as materials anticipating as well as accompanying Fanon's better-known work.

Inhalt

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