Psychiatric Contours

New African Histories of Madness

Dados Bibliográficos

ID5778263
EditoresNancy Rose Hunt (0009-0008-5398-0483, autor correspondente), Hubertus Büschel
Ano2024
Páginas328
Data de publicação2024-03-05
Open AccessNão
TipoBOOK
PeriódicoPsychiatric Contours (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditoraDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/9781478059325
OpenAlexW4392481947
Open LibraryOL60884176M
ISBN9781478059325
IdiomaEN
Referências citadas28

Psychiatric Contours investigates new histories of psychiatry, derangement, and agitated subjectivities in colonial and decolonizing Africa. The volume lets the multivalent term madness broaden perception, well beyond the psychiatric. Many chapters detect the mad or the psychiatric in unhinged persons, frantic collectives, and distressing situations. Others investigate individuals suffering from miscategorization. A key Foucauldian word, vivacity, illuminates how madness aligns with pathology, creativity, turbulence, and psychopolitics. The archives, patient-authored or not, speak to furies and fantasies inside asylums, colonial institutions, decolonizing missions, and slave ships. The frayed edges of politicized deliria open up the senses and optics of psychiatry's history in Africa far beyond clinical spaces and classification. The volume also proposes fresh concepts, notably the vernacular, to suggest how to work with emic clues in a granular fashion and telescope the psychiatric within histories of madness. With chapters stretching across much of ex-British and ex-French colonial Africa, Psychiatric Contours attends to the words, autobiographies, and hallucinations of the stigmatized and afflicted as well as of the powerful. Expatriate psychiatrists with cameras, prying authorities, fearful missionaries, and colonial anthropologists enter these readings beside patients, asylums, and boarding schools via research on possession "hysteria" and schizophrenia. In brief, this book demonstrates novel ways of writing not only medical history but all subaltern and global histories

Expatriate · History of psychiatry · Hysteria · Neurasthenia · Subaltern · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices