Frantz Fanon ; The psychiatric writings from alienation and freedom

Author: Frantz Fanon, Jean Khalfa, Professor Robert J. C. Young

publisher name: Bloomsbury Academic

ISBN: 9781350125919

£15.99

book description

Frantz Fanon's psychiatric career was crucial to his thinking as an anti-colonialist writer and activist. Much of his iconic work was shaped by his experiences working in hospitals in France, Algeria, and Tunisia. The writing collected here was written from 1951 to 1960 in tandem with his political work and reveals much about how Fanon's thought developed, showing that, for him, psychiatry was part of a much wider socio-political struggle.

His political, revolutionary, and literary lives should not then be separated from the psychiatric practice and writings that shaped his thinking about oppression, alienation, and the search for freedom.