Frantz Fanon, Psychiatry and Politics (Paperback)

The revolutionary and psychiatrist Frantz Fanon was a foundational figure in postcolonial and decolonial thought and practice, yet his psychiatric work still has only been studied peripherally. That is in part because most of his psychiatric writings have remained untranslated. With a focus on Fanon's key psychiatry texts, Frantz Fanon: Psychiatry and Politics considers Fanon's psychiatic writings as materials anticipating as well as accompanying Fanon's better known work, written between 1952 and 1961 (Black Skin, White Masks, A Dying Colonialism, Toward the African Revolution, The Wretched of the Earth). Both clinical and political, they draw on another notion of psychiatry that intersects history, ethnology, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. The authors argue that Fanon's work inaugurates a critical ethnopsychiatry based on a new concept of culture (anchored to historical events, particular situations, and lived experience) and on the relationship between the psychological and the cultural. Thus, Gibson and Beneduce contend that Fanon's psychiatric writings also express Fanon's wish, as he puts it in The Wretched of the Earth, to "develop a new way of thinking, not only for us but for humanity."

General

Imprint:	ECPR Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Creolizing the Canon
Release date:	March 2019
Authors:	Nigel C. Gibson • Roberto Beneduce
Dimensions:	220 x 151 x 23mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	322
ISBN-13:	978-1-78660-094-3
Categories:	Books > Medicine > Other branches of medicine > Psychiatry Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Social & political philosophy
LSN:	1-78660-094-3
Barcode:	9781786600943

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