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Colonial Psychiatry and the African Mind

By Jock McCulloch

Book information

Year
1995
ISBN
0521453305, 9780521453301, 0521034809, 9780521034807, 9780511598548
LCC
RC451.A4 M35 1995
Open Library ID
OL1086797M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
4 MB (4453848 bytes)
Pages
196\195
Topic
Psychology
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In this first history of the practice and theoretical underpinnings of colonial psychiatry in Africa, Jock McCulloch describes the clinical approaches of well-known European psychiatrists who worked directly with indigenous Africans, among them Frantz Fanon, J.C. Carothers, and Wulf Sachs. They were a disparate group, operating independently of one another, and mostly in intellectual isolation. But despite their differences, they shared a coherent set of ideas about "The African Mind," premised on the colonial notion of African inferiority. In exploring the close association between the ideologies of settler societies and psychiatric research, this intriguing study is one of the few attempts to explore colonial science as a system of knowledge and power.

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