ABSTRACT

Recognizing Frantz Fanon’s remarkable legacy to applied mental health and therapeutic practices which decolonize, humanize, and empower marginalized populations, this text serves as a timely call for research, education, and clinical work to establish and further develop Fanonian approaches and practices.

As the first collection to focus on contemporary clinical applications of Fanon’s research and practice, this volume adopts a transnational lens through which to capture the global reach of Fanon’s work. Contributors from Africa, Australia, Europe, and North America offer nuanced insight into historical and theoretical methods, clinical case studies, and community-based innovations to place Fanon’s research and practice in context. Organized into four key areas, including the Historical Significance of Fanon’s Clinical Work; Theory and Fanonian Praxis; Psychotherapeutic and Community Applications; and Action Research, each section of the book reflects an impressive diversity of practices around the world, and considers the role of political and socioeconomic context, structures of gender oppression, racial identities, and their intersection within those practices.

A unique manifesto to the ground-breaking and immensely relevant work of Frantz Fanon, this book will be of great interest to graduate and post graduate students, researchers, academics and professionals in counselling psychology, mental health research, and psychotherapy.

chapter |19 pages

Introduction

section Section 1|85 pages

Fanon’s Clinical Work in Historical Context

section Section 2|56 pages

History, Theory and Fanonian Praxis

chapter 4|18 pages

Therapy of/for the Oppressed

Frantz Fanon’s Psychopolitical Pedagogy of Transformation

chapter 5|36 pages

The Psychic Life of History

Migration, Critical Ethno-Psychiatry, and the Archives of the Future

section Section 3|64 pages

Fanon in Clinical Action

chapter 6|18 pages

Subversive Healing

Fanon and the Radical Intent of Surviving Torture

chapter 8|17 pages

The Case of K

Looking to Frantz Fanon to Guide Cross-Racial Trauma-Informed Therapy

chapter 9|13 pages

“When I Was Growing Up, It Was Important to Be Identified as a Revolutionary”

A Conversation With Community Activist Imani Bazzell

section Section 4|49 pages

Fanonian Research in Action

chapter 10|25 pages

Mending a Crack in the Sky

An Evolving Community Healing Case Study Among Somali Canadians

chapter 11|22 pages

Race and Recognition

Pathways to an Affirmative Black Identity 1