Article ID: CBB044266769

The politics and practice of Thomas Adeoye Lambo: Towards a post-colonial history of transcultural psychiatry (2018)

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This article traces the career of Thomas Adeoye Lambo, the first European-trained psychiatrist of indigenous Nigerian (Yoruba) background and one of the key contributors to the international development of transcultural psychiatry from the 1950s to the 1980s. The focus on Lambo provides some political, cultural and geographical balance to the broader history of transcultural psychiatry by emphasizing the contributions to transcultural psychiatric knowledge that have emerged from a particular non-western context. At the same time, an examination of Lambo’s legacy allows historians to see the limitations of transcultural psychiatry’s influence over time. Ultimately, this article concludes that the history of transcultural psychiatry might have more to tell us about the politics of the ‘transcultural’ than the practice of ‘psychiatry’ in post-colonial contexts.

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Authors & Contributors
Delille, Emmanuel
Leckie, Jacqueline
Seth, Sanjay
Cerea, Alessandra
Leitner, Bernhard
Tortorici, Zeb
Concepts
Indigenous peoples; indigeneity
Cross-cultural interaction; cultural influence
Postcolonialism
Colonialism
Psychiatry
Social sciences
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
20th century
20th century, early
Early modern
Modern
Places
United States
Caribbean
Papua New Guinea
Uganda
Nigeria
Greenland
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