Recognizing Frantz Fanon’s remarkable legacy to applied mental health and therapeutic practices which decolonize, humanize, and empower marginalized populations, this text serves as a timely call for research, education, and clinical work to establish and further develop Fanonian approaches and practices. As the first collection to focus on contemporary clinical applications of Fanon’s research and practice, this volume adopts a transnational lens through which to capture the global reach of Fanon’s work.
Key Features
- Contributors from Africa, Australia, Europe, and North America provide nuanced insights into historical and theoretical methods.
- Includes clinical case studies and community-based innovations contextualising Fanon’s research and practice.
- Organised into four key areas:
- Historical Significance of Fanon’s Clinical Work
- Theory and Fanonian Praxis
- Psychotherapeutic and Community Applications
- Action Research
- Reflects an impressive diversity of practices around the world while considering the role of political and socioeconomic context, structures of gender oppression, and racial identities.
Additional Information
A unique manifesto to the ground-breaking and immensely relevant work of Frantz Fanon, this book will be of great interest to graduate and post graduate students, researchers, academics, and professionals in counselling psychology, mental health research, and psychotherapy.
