5/15/2023 0 Comments Karima lazali colonial trauma![]() ![]() And perhaps because of that inextricable link, he argued that violence was an essential part of the anticolonial struggle. Through a series of poignant case studies drawn from his clinical practice, he showed how the colonialist’s violence bred in the colonised a constellation of pathological behaviours. “ In his book The Wretched of the Earth (1961), Fanon locates the origins of Algerian violence in the ‘colonial situation’. This is the core part of Dr Abi-Rached’s article: His theory put the blame squarely on colonialism, and is still influential today although looking somewhat threadbare sixty years after colonial emancipation. The second was developed by Frantz Fanon, a French psychiatrist and revolutionary from Martinique. It was championed by psychiatrist Antoine Sutter and has long since been consigned to history. ![]() ![]() The first was called Primitivism which found the source of the troubling behaviours in the supposedly deficient cortex of the Arab native. At that time there co-existed at the hospital two schools of thought explaining the violent pathologies presenting in Algerian patients. ![]() Today it is run down and desolate but in the 1950’s it was “ the pride of the colonial Algerian school of psychiatry”. The author Joelle M Abi-Rached, a Lebanese doctor and academic, recounts a visit to the psychiatric hospital of Blida-Joinville in Algeria. Here is an interesting article, “ Frantz Fanon and the crisis of mental health in the Arab world”. ![]()
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