Hostname: page-component-8448b6f56d-qsmjn Total loading time: 0 Render date: 2024-04-24T15:29:58.310Z Has data issue: false hasContentIssue false

Frantz Fanon and the confluence of psychiatry, politics, ethics and culture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 June 2014

Michael Robertson*
Affiliation:
Discipline of Psychological Medicine, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia Sydney South West Area Health Service, Liverpool BC, NSW 1871, Australia
Garry Walter
Affiliation:
Discipline of Psychological Medicine, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services, Northern Sydney Central Coast Health, Sydney, Australia Department of Psychiatry, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada
*
Dr Michael Robertson, Centre for Values, Ethics and the Law in Medicine, K25, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia Tel:+61290363405 Fax:+61290363436 E-mail: mrobertson@med.usyd.edu.au

Abstract

Image of the first page of this content. For PDF version, please use the ‘Save PDF’ preceeding this image.'
Type
Pictures & Prose
Copyright
Copyright © 2009 John Wiley & Sons A/S

Access options

Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. Content may require purchase if you do not have access.)

References

Fanon, F.The wretched of the earth. New York: Grove, 1963. Google Scholar
Adams, P.The social psychiatry of Frantz Fanon. Am J Psychiatry 1970;127: 809814. CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Macey, D.Frantz Fanon: a life. London: Granta, 2001. Google Scholar
Fulford, R.Frantz Fanon: a poisonous thinker who refuses to die. The National Post. URL http://www.robertfulford.com/FrantzFanon.html [accessed on 21 June 2008], 2002. Google Scholar
Silove, D.The psychiatrist as a political leader in war: does the medical profession have a monitoring role? J Nerv Ment Dis 1995;183: 125126. CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Fanon, F.Black skin, white masks (trans. Markmann, C). New York: Grove Press, 1952. Google Scholar
Hopton, J.The application of the ideas of Frantz Fanon to the practice of mental health nursing. J Adv Nurs 1995;21: 723728. CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Verges, F.To cure and free: the Fanonian project of decolonized psychiatry In: Gordon, L, Sharpely-Whiting, T, White, R, eds. Fanon: a critical reader. London: Blackwell, 1996: 8599. Google Scholar
Lacan, J.Écrits: the first complete edition in English (trans. Fink, B). New York: W.W. Norton & Co, 2006. Google Scholar
Fanon, F, Geronimi, C.L’hospitalisation de jour en psychiatrie, valeur et limites. La Tunisie Medicale 1959;37: 713732. Google Scholar
Robertson, MD, Walter, G.The ethics of psychiatric diagnosis. Psychiatr Ann 2007;37: 793797. Google Scholar
Robertson, M, Walter, G.Overview of psychiatric ethics VI: newer approaches to the field. Australas Psychiatry 2007;15: 411416. CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed