Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-292) and index.
Contents:
The thoughts of a young psychiatrist on race, social psychiatry, theories of madness and "the human condition" -- The political phenomenology of the body and Black alienation -- Colonial psychiatry and the birth of a critical ethnopsychiatry -- Suspect bodies: a phenomenology of colonial experience -- Further steps towards a critical ethnopsychiatry sociotherapy: its strengths and weaknesses -- The impossibility of mental health in a colonial society: Fanon joins the FLN -- Psychiatry, violence, and revolution: body and mind in context -- The Tunis psychiatric day hospital -- Bitter orange: the consequences of colonial war -- From colonial to postcolonial disorders, or the psychic life of history.
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