Colonial Psychiatry and the African Mind(English, Hardcover, McCulloch Jock)

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Colonial Psychiatry and the African Mind(English, Hardcover, McCulloch Jock) is written by McCulloch Jock and published by Cambridge University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0521453305 (ISBN 10) and 9780521453301 (ISBN 13).

In this 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 an attempt to explore colonial science as a system of knowledge and power.