The Psychiatric Writings from Alienation and Freedom

The first English translation of Frantz Fanon's psychiatric writings, so can provide a significant insight to Fanon's overall vision for society, The writings - which were thought to be lost - provide a unique insight into Fanon's thoughts on the development of psychiatric medicine, and specifically methods of treatment between 1951-60, Fanon always thought of himself as a practicing psychiatrist and his writing and research reveals him to be a pioneer of ethnopsychiatry, or the idea that ethnic and cultural factors could influence mental illness, and an advocate of therapy that operated outside of the psychiatric hospital system, thus providing a model for modern mental health provision, Features ten rare photographs of Fanon during his psychiatric practice and research.