Article ID: CBB585231913

Frantz Fanon, Institutional Psychotherapy, and the Decolonization of Psychiatry (2020)

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This article examines the role of psychiatry in the life and work of Frantz Fanon. It focuses on Fanon’s relationship to institutional psychotherapy, which he discovered at the hospital of Saint-Alban through the figure of François Tosquelles. Institutional psychotherapy confirmed, on a clinical level, what Fanon had already intuited in his early work. If alienation was always political and psychic at the same time, then decolonization needed to involve the disalienation of the mind. This is precisely what Fanon tried to do in his psychiatric work in North Africa and in his last political texts.

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Authors & Contributors
Burston, Daniel
Hook, Derek
Karydaki, Danae
Marks, Sarah
Mélanie Henry
Brickell, Chris
Concepts
Psychiatry
Psychotherapy
Decolonization
Psychoanalysis
Science and politics
Psychology
Time Periods
20th century
19th century
21st century
20th century, late
18th century
Places
Algeria
United States
North Africa
Africa, French-speaking
Uganda
Scotland
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