Colonial Psychiatry and the African Mind
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- Author: Jock McCulloch, Deakin University, Victoria
- Date Published: December 2006
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- isbn: 9780521034807
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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.
Read more- The first history of psychiatry in colonial Africa
- Interdisciplinary in as much as it covers psychiatry, colonialism, Africa, medicine and anthropology
- Previous CUP author who writes coherently and accessibly
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- Date Published: December 2006
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521034807
- length: 196 pages
- dimensions: 228 x 151 x 11 mm
- weight: 0.3kg
- availability: Available
Table of Contents
Acknowledgements
1. Introduction
2. Psychiatry and colonial practice
3. Some contemporary reviews of colonial mental health systems
4. Towards a theory of the African mind
5. Theory into practice: Carothers and the politics of Mau Mau
6. African intelligence, sexuality and psyche
7. The African family and the colonial personality
8. The elements of orthodoxy
9. From psychiatry to politics
10. Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
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