"Colonial psychiatry and "the African mind

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ID6525840
AuthorsJock Mcculloch
Year1995
Pages185
Publication date1995-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeBOOK
Reviewed by"Colonial Psychiatry and "The African Mind, Leonard W Doob, 1997
VenueColonial psychiatry and "the African mind" (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
Open LibraryOL1086797M
ISBN9780521453301
LanguageEN
Citations received54

In this first history of the practice and the theoretical underpinnings of colonial psychiatry in Africa, Jock McCulloch describes the clinical approaches of well-known European psychiatrists who worked 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', premissed 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

Africa · Attitudes · Colonization · Community psychiatry · Imperialism · Knowledge · National characteristics · Political aspects · Politics · Practice · Psychological aspects · Afica · African National characteristics · Health Knowledge, Practice · History · Knowledge, Practice · National characteristics, African · Political aspects of Psychiatry · Psychiatry · Psychological aspects of Imperialism

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