Decolonization of psychiatry in Jamaica : madnificent irations / Frederick W. Hickling.

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Decolonization of psychiatry in Jamaica : madnificent irations / Frederick W. Hickling.

9783030484897 (electronic bk.)
3030484890 (electronic bk.)
9783030484880
3030484882

Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]

©2021

English

1 online resource : illustrations (chiefly color)

10.1007/978-3-030-48489-7 doi

RC451.J25 H53 2021

616.890097292

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 Madnificent Irations, with an examination of Jamaicas political and social history, and the authors 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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