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1 online resource |
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Includes index. |
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Introduction : Fanon, Revolutionary Psychiatrist by Jean Khalfa -- 1. Mental alterations, character modifications, psychic disorders and intellectual deficit in spinocerebellar heredodegeneration : A case of Friedreich's ataxia with delusions of possession -- 2. Letter to Maurice Despinoy -- 3. Trait d'Union -- 4. On some cases treated with the Bini method -- 5. Indications of electroconvulsive therapy within institutional therapies |
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6. On an attempt to rehabilitate a patient suffering from morpheic epilepsy and serious character disorders -- 7. Note on sleep therapy techniques using conditioning and electroencephalographic monitoring -- 8. Our Journal -- 9. Letter to Maurice Despinoy -- 10. Social therapy in a ward of Muslim men : Methodological difficulties -- 11. Daily life in the douars -- 12. Introduction to sexuality disorders among North Africans -- 13. Current aspects of mental care in Algeria -- 14. Ethnopsychiatric considerations -- 15. Conducts of confession in North Africa (1) -- 16. Conducts of confession in North Africa (2) |
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17. Letter to Maurice Despinoy -- 18. Maghrebi Muslims and their attitude to madness -- 19. TAT in Muslim women: Sociology of perception and imagination -- 20. Letter to the Resident Minister -- 21. The phenomenon of agitation in the psychiatric milieu : General considerations, psychopathological meaning -- 22. Biological study of the action of lithium citrate on bouts of mania -- 23. On a case of torsion spasm -- 24. First tests using injectable meprobamate for hypochondriac states -- 25. Day hospitalization in psychiatry : Value and limits |
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26. Day hospitalization in psychiatry : Value and limits. Part two: doctrinal considerations -- 27. The meeting between society and psychiatry. |
| Summary |
Frantz Fanon's psychiatric career was crucial to his thinking as an anti-colonialist writer and activist. Much of his iconic work was shaped by his experiences working in hospitals in France, Algeria and Tunisia. The writing collected here was written from 1951 to 1960 in tandem with his political work and reveals much about how Fanon's thought developed, showing that, for him, psychiatry was part of a much wider socio-political struggle. His political, revolutionary and literary lives should not then be separated from the psychiatric practice and writings that shaped his thinking about oppression, alienation and the search for freedom. |
| Language |
Translated from the French. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Psychiatry -- Social aspects.
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Political psychology.
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National liberation & independence, post-colonialism. |
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Social & political philosophy. |
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Psychology. |
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Literary studies: post-colonial literature. |
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Philosophy -- Political. |
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Psychology -- Psychopathology -- General. |
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Political Science -- Colonialism & Post-Colonialism. |
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Political psychology |
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Psychiatry -- Social aspects |
| Added Author |
Khalfa, Jean, editor.
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Young, Robert, 1950- editor.
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Corcoran, Steve, translator.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Fanon, Frantz, 1925-1961. Psychiatric writings from alienation and freedom. London : Bloomsbury Academic, [2021] 1350125911 9781350125919 (OCoLC)1101776740 |
| ISBN |
9781350125926 (electronic bk.) |
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135012592X (electronic bk.) |
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1350125911 |
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9781350125919 |
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