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050	0	0	_aRC451.A4 _bM35 1995
060	1	0	_aWM 11 HA1 M4c 1995
082	0	0	_a616.89/0096 _220
100	1		_aMcCulloch, Jock, _d1945-
245	1	0	_aColonial psychiatry and 'the African mind' / _cJock McCulloch.
260			_aNew York : _bCambridge University Press, _cc1995.
300			_ax, 185 p. ; _c24 cm.
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 171-180) and index.
505	0		_a1. 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.
520			_aIn 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.
520	8		_aBut 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.
650		0	_aPsychiatry _xPolitical aspects _zAfrica _xHistory.
650		0	_aNational characteristics, African.
650		0	_aImperialism _xPsychological aspects.
650		2	_aCommunity Psychiatry _xhistory.
650		2	_aPolitics.
650		2	_aHealth Knowledge, Attitudes, Practice.
651		0	_aAfrica _xColonization _xPsychological aspects.
651		2	_aAfrica.
900			_bTOC
942			_2lcc _cBK
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