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Decolonization of Psychiatry in Jamaica

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This book traces the historical postcolonial journey of four generations of Jamaican psychiatrists challenging the European colonial ‘civilizing mission’ of psychiatric care. It details the process of deinstitutionizing patients with chronic mental illness using psychohistoriographic cultural therapy, by engaging them in creating sociodrama and poetry writing, not only to express and reverse the stigma contributing to their marginalized status, but also to reconnect them to a centuries-long history of oppression. The author thereby demonstrates that psychological decolonization requires a seminal understanding of the complex mental inter-relationship between slaves and slaveowners. Further, it is shown how the model analyzes the antipodal dialectic history of descendants of Africans enslaved in the New World by brutish British Imperialists suffering from the European psychosis of white supremacy. Drawing together a detailed description of the sociopoem MadnificentIrations, with an examination of Jamaica’s political and social history, and the author’s personal experience, this compelling work marks an important contribution to decolonial literature. It will be of particular interest to students and scholars of postcolonial studies, critical race theory, the history of psychology and community psychology.

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Frederick W. Hickling is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica. He was elected Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association in 2008, received the Royal College of Psychiatrists Fellowship, UK, in 2011, and was made Commander in the Order of Distinction Jamaica in 2012.
Release date Australia
September 16th, 2022
Pages
250
Edition
1st ed. 2021
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  • Professional & Vocational
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25 Illustrations, color; 4 Illustrations, black and white; XII, 250 p. 29 illus., 25 illus. in color.
ISBN-13
9783030484910
Product ID
35997117

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