Main description:

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.

Contents:

Introduction

Lou Turner and Helen A. Neville

Section 1: Fanon's Clinical Work in Historical Context

Frantz Fanon, Institutional Psychotherapy, and the Decolonization of Psychiatry Camille Robcis

"Psychiatry must be political": The Preterrain of a New Fanon Lou Turner

History of the Fanon Research & Development Center in Los Angeles Interview with Lewis King Lewis King, Lou Turner, and Helen A. Neville
Section 2: History, Theory and Fanonian Praxis

Therapy of/for the Oppressed: Frantz Fanon's Psychopolitical Pedagogy of Transformation Erica Burman

The Psychic Life of History: Migration, Critical Ethno-Psychiatry, and the Archives of The Future Roberto Beneduce
Section 3: Fanon in Clinical Action: Psychotherapeutic and Community Applications

Subversive Healing: Fanon and the Radical Intent of Surviving Torture Hawthorne E. Smith and Gonkapieu J. Gueu

The Ideas of Frantz Fanon and Practices of Cultural Safety With Australia's First Peoples Luke Molloy

The Case of K: Looking to Frantz Fanon to Guide Cross-Racial Trauma-Informed Therapy Maria Judith Valgoi

"When I was growing up, it was important to be identified as a revolutionnary":
A Conversation with Community Activist Imani Bazzell Imani Bazzell, Helen A. Neville, and Lou Turner

Section 4: Fanon in Research Action

Mending a Crack in the Sky: An Evolving Community Healing Research Initiative among Somali Canadians Nkechinyelum Chioneso, Mahad Yusuf, and Shamso Elmi

Race and Recognition: Pathways to an Affirmative Black Identity Helen A. Neville, Brigitte Viard, and Lou Turner