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Black Soul, White Artifact: Fanon's Clinical Psychology and Social Theory

By Jock McCulloch

Book information

Year
1983
ISBN
9780521247009, 9780511558559, 0521520258, 0521247004, 0511558554, 9780521520256
LCC
JC273.F36
Open Library ID
OL22210140M
Language
english
Format
DJVU
Filesize
1 MB (1499897 bytes)
Pages
261\261
Topic
Psychology
DPI
300
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

The death of Frantz Fanon at the age of thirty-six robbed the African revolution of its leading intellectual and moral force. His death also cut short one of the most extraordinary intellectual careers in contemporary political thought. Fanon was a political psychologist whose approach to revolutionary theory was grounded in his psychiatric practice. During his years in Algeria he published clinical studies on the behaviour of violent patients, the role of culture in the development of illness and the function of the psychiatric hospital as a social milieu. These papers illuminate Fanon's political theory, expose weaknesses in his concept of political consciousness and liberation, and contain a 'secret history' explaining the tide of revolutionary movements in the Third World.

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