Dr Fanon on colonial narcissism and anti-colonial melancholia

This chapter provides an outline of Fanon’s involvement in the most progressive strand of French psychiatry that became known as ‘psychothérapie institutionnelle’, as well as of his clinical response to the colonial context at the Bilda-Joinville hospital in Algeria, in order to demonstrate the stro...

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Main Author: Wright, Colin
Other Authors: Sheils, Barry
Format: Book Section
Published: Palgrave Macmillan 2017
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Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/45483/