The legacy of French colonial psychiatry ( 跟 Frantz Fanon 有關聯性 )

這是 Psychiatry Beyond Fanon 系列專文中的一篇，

作者為 Katie Kilroy- Marac 多倫多大學人類學副教授

French psychiatry in West Africa saw 

Black bodies as “alien” to white ones. 

It hasn't changed much.

The patients, or les aliénés as they were called at the time, were imagined “alien” in the double sense of the French word later remarked upon by Frantz Fanon: both as estranged from themselves in their madness, and as distinctly foreign others.

I was in Marseille in spring 2020, doing archival research related to this story and searching for traces of the men and women subjected to this cruel intervention, when COVID-19 took hold. From the very start of the pandemic, I watched as the same gamut of racist tropes that animated the writings of colonial psychiatrists circa 1900—from speculations about Black immunity, to ideas about heightened vulnerability due to comorbidities, lifestyle choices, or a refusal to comply/assimilate, to fears that Black communities might in fact fuel the spread—began circulating in media outlets and online fora in France and beyond. 

全文連結

https://africasacountry.com/2021/06/the-legacy-of-french-colonial-psychiatry:

 作者：　Kelly