Colonial psychiatry and "the African mind"

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Colonial psychiatry and "the African mind"

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Jock McCulloch

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Colonial Psychiatry & the African Mind

Creator

• McCulloch, Jock, 1945-

Subject

• Africa -- Colonization | Psychological aspects
• Imperialism -- Psychological aspects
• National characteristics, African
• Psychiatry -- Political aspects -- Africa -- History

Language

eng

Summary

In this 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 an attempt to explore colonial science as a system of knowledge and power.--

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non fiction

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Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks