ABSTRACT
Frantz Fanon’s concepts of racialized psychological development and dynamics have seldom been tested, let alone employed in actual research, research design, or applied in data analysis. With word of the imminent publication of Fanon’s “clinical papers” in 2014 by Palgrave Press under the editorship of Nigel Gibson, new ground for an “empirical turn” was at hand. Fanon’s ethnopsychiatry is not only distinguished from the scientific racism of Algiers School ethnopsychiatry but from left-liberal French social science. The vector of Western social sciences as they operated in colonial fields of study and research was redirected in Fanon’s fieldwork/therapy. Fanonian ethnopsychiatry not only undermines the monopoly of academic ethnography, but the institutional basis of psychiatry. Reconnoitering the preterrain of Fanon’s psychotherapeutic and research practices as his very original pathway to revolution is the burden of this monograph. In formulating a decolonized ethnopsychiatry, Fanon contributed to political decolonization and to the creation of the “new reality of the nation”.
