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Colonial Psychiatry and the African Mind
by Jock McCulloch
Product Group: Book
Publisher: Cambridge University Press (1995-01-27)
ISBN: 0521453305
EAN: 9780521453301
Dewy Decimal #: 616.890096
Hardcover: 196 pages
Condition: Like New
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Product Description
In this first 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 one of the few attempts to explore colonial science as a system of knowledge and power.
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