The Psychiatric Writings from Alienation and Freedom

by Frantz Fanon

Book Overview

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,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350125911
• ISBN13: 9781350125919
• Release Date: October 2020
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 504 Pages
• Weight: 1.41 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.4" x 8.4"