The Resource Colonial psychiatry and the African mind
Colonial psychiatry and the African mind
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The item Colonial psychiatry and the African mind represents a specific, individual, material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Sydney Jones Library, University of Liverpool.
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- Summary
- In this first history of the practice and the theoretical underpinnings of colonial psychiatry in Africa, Jock McCulloch describes the clinical approaches of well-known European psychiatrists who worked 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', premissed 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
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 185 pages
- Contents
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- 1. Introduction
- 2. Psychiatry and colonial practice
- 3. Some contemporary reviews of colonial mental health systems
- 4. Towards a theory of the African mind
- 5. Theory into practice: Carothers and the politics of Mau Mau
- 6. African intelligence, sexuality and psyche
- 7. The African family and the colonial personality
- 8. The elements of orthodoxy
- 9. From psychiatry to politics
- 10. Conclusion
- Isbn
- 9780521453301
- Label
- Colonial psychiatry and the African mind
- Title
- Colonial psychiatry and the African mind
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- In this first history of the practice and the theoretical underpinnings of colonial psychiatry in Africa, Jock McCulloch describes the clinical approaches of well-known European psychiatrists who worked 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', premissed 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
- Cataloging source
- UkLiU
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1945-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- McCulloch, Jock
- Index
- no index present
- LC call number
- RC451.A4
- LC item number
- M35 1995
- Literary form
- non fiction
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
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- Psychiatry
- National characteristics, African
- Imperialism
- Community Psychiatry
- Politics
- Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
- Africa
- Label
- Colonial psychiatry and the African mind
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-180) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
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- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Psychiatry and colonial practice -- 3. Some contemporary reviews of colonial mental health systems -- 4. Towards a theory of the African mind -- 5. Theory into practice: Carothers and the politics of Mau Mau -- 6. African intelligence, sexuality and psyche -- 7. The African family and the colonial personality -- 8. The elements of orthodoxy -- 9. From psychiatry to politics -- 10. Conclusion
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- x, 185 pages
- Isbn
- 9780521453301
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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- n
- Label
- Colonial psychiatry and the African mind
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 171-180) and index
- Carrier category
- volume
- Carrier category code
-
- nc
- Carrier MARC source
- rdacarrier
- Content category
- text
- Content type code
-
- txt
- Content type MARC source
- rdacontent
- Contents
- 1. Introduction -- 2. Psychiatry and colonial practice -- 3. Some contemporary reviews of colonial mental health systems -- 4. Towards a theory of the African mind -- 5. Theory into practice: Carothers and the politics of Mau Mau -- 6. African intelligence, sexuality and psyche -- 7. The African family and the colonial personality -- 8. The elements of orthodoxy -- 9. From psychiatry to politics -- 10. Conclusion
- Dimensions
- 24 cm
- Extent
- x, 185 pages
- Isbn
- 9780521453301
- Media category
- unmediated
- Media MARC source
- rdamedia
- Media type code
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