The social psychiatry of Frantz Fanon.

The Social and Political Status of Kyrgyz Women: the Historical Heritage of the Soviet Union and Negative Tendencies in Post- Communist Kyrgyzstan1

Translating Fanon in the Italian context: rethinking the ethics of treatment in psychiatry.

Based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork at the Centro Frantz Fanon, an ethnopsychiatric clinic in Northern Italy, this article traces the theoretical and clinical genealogy of Italian ethnopsychiatry as it is conceived and practiced at this clinic. The clinic draws explicitly from the work of Fanon and French ethnopsychologist Tobie Nathan. This genealogy provides a basis for reflection on...

Origins and formative years

Over the past two decades, many issues concerning Black and minority ethnic (BME) communities’ access to equitable, culturally sensitive services and interventions in the UK have been highlighted (Littlewood 1982; Fernando 1988, 1991; Bhui 1999, 2002; Bhugra 2001a; National Institute for Mental Health in England 2003; Department of Health 2005a,b). Frantz Fanon was one of the earliest Black psy...

Marxism and Frantz Fanon’s Theory of Colonial Identity: Parallels between Racial and Commodity-Based Fetishism

Despite Frantz Fanon’s and Karl Marx’s shared goal of the emancipation of all human beings from oppression, Fanon maintains in his final book, The Wretched of the Earth, that the connection between his theory of colonial identity and Marxist ideology cannot be reduced to a superficial doctrine of class struggles. Though Fanon resisted an oversimplified comparison with Marxist theory, this paper...

IVFROM "UNBOUND AFRICA" TO "NEW AFRICA": African political discourses under colonial rule