Colonial Psychiatry and the African MindIn 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. |
Contents
1 Introduction | 1 |
2 Psychiatry and colonial practice | 9 |
3 Some contemporary reviews of colonialmental health systems | 29 |
4 Towards a theory of the African mind | 46 |
Carothers and thepolitics of Mau Mau | 64 |
6 African intelligence sexuality and psyche | 77 |
7 The African family and the colonialpersonality | 91 |
8 The elements of orthodoxy | 105 |
9 From psychiatry to politics | 121 |
10 Conclusion | 137 |
Notes | 147 |
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