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Colonial Psychiatry and the African Mind

Colonial Psychiatry and the African Mind

McCulloch, Jock
Jock, McCulloch

Hardcover

African HistoryGeneral Political ScienceMental Health

ISBN10: 0521453305
ISBN13: 9780521453301
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jan 12 1995
Pages: 196
Weight: 0.80
Height: 0.79 Width: 6.25 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
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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