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.

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Publisher

Bloomsbury Academic

Year

2020

ISBN

9781350125933

Edition

Topic

Philosophy

Subtopic

Political Philosophy

Cover
Halftitle Page
Title Page
Contents
Illustrations
Frantz Fanon: Works Cited
Editors’ Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Fanon, Revolutionary Psychiatrist
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
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)
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
26 Day hospitalization in psychiatry: Value and limits. Part two: doctrinal considerations
27 The meeting between society and psychiatry
Frantz Fanon’s Library
Key Dates of Fanon’s Life
Index
Imprint