TY  - BOOK
AU  - McCulloch,Jock
TI  - Colonial psychiatry and 'the African mind'
SN  - 0521453305 (hardback)
AV  - RC451.A4 M35 1995
U1  - 616.89/0096 20
PY  - 1995///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Psychiatry
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Africa
KW  - History
KW  - National characteristics, African
KW  - Imperialism
KW  - Psychological aspects
KW  - Community Psychiatry
KW  - history
KW  - Politics
KW  - Health Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice
KW  - Colonization
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (p. 171-180) and index; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -