The Psychiatry of Resistance in Colonial Algeria

In the Algerian war of independence against colonial France, the psychiatrist #FrantzFanon became one of the most famous anti-colonial intellectuals in the world. The author of the seminal work, Les damné de la terre [The Wretched of the Earth], Fanon's analysis of violence and resistance remains essential reading. Yet he was first and foremost a psychiatrist. Here Fella Benabed discusses Fanon's anticolonial psychiatry, and its significance for our understanding of racism. For MONITOR Global Intelligence on Racism. http://monitoracism.eu Fella Benabed is Professor in the Department of English at Université Badji Mokhtar-Annaba, Algeria. In 2021, Professor Benabed was a Fulbright Scholar at Columbia University, USA.