Psychiatric Contours
New African Histories of Madness
Herausgeber: Hunt, Nancy Rose; Büschel, Hubertus
Psychiatric Contours
New African Histories of Madness
Herausgeber: Hunt, Nancy Rose; Büschel, Hubertus
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Psychiatric Contours investigates new histories of psychiatry, derangement, and agitated subjectivities in colonial and decolonizing Africa.
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Psychiatric Contours investigates new histories of psychiatry, derangement, and agitated subjectivities in colonial and decolonizing Africa.
Produktdetails
- Produktdetails
- Verlag: Duke University Press
- Seitenzahl: 360
- Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2024
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
- Gewicht: 644g
- ISBN-13: 9781478026112
- ISBN-10: 1478026111
- Artikelnr.: 68543238
- Verlag: Duke University Press
- Seitenzahl: 360
- Erscheinungstermin: 10. Mai 2024
- Englisch
- Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
- Gewicht: 644g
- ISBN-13: 9781478026112
- ISBN-10: 1478026111
- Artikelnr.: 68543238
Nancy Rose Hunt and Hubertus Büschel, editors
List of Figures ix
Preface xi
1. Introduction. Madness, the Psychopolitical, and the Vernacular:
Rethinking Psychiatric Histories / Nancy Rose Hunt 1
Part I. Writing, Biography, and the Psychopolitics of Decolonization
1. Archives of False Prophets: Inventing the Future in a West African
Psychiatric Hospital / Nana Osei Quarshie 43
2. Missionary Anxieties, Psychopathology, and Decolonization: A
Biographical Approach / Richard Hölzl 68
3. Mr. Tanka and Voices: A Cameroonian Patient Writing about Schizophrenia
/ Hubertus Büschel 93
Part II. Patient Worlds Meet Diagnostic Categories
4. Delirious Words and Social Ambition in French Colonial Madagascar /
Raphaël Gallien 135
5. Sickness and Symptoms as Cultural Capacities in Colonial Ideology /
Jonathan Sadowsky 156
6. Rethinking Brain Fag Syndrome: Students, Symptoms, and a Late Colonial
Survey in Nigeria / Matthew M. Heaton 179
Part III. Practices and Long Durations
7. Casting out Anger: Stress, Possession, and the Everyday in Taita, Kenya
/ Sloan Mahone 209
8. The Universal, the Particular, and Vernacular Resistance in Colonial
Algeria / Richard C. Keller 234
Part IV. Unexpected Archives and Ethnographic Investigations
9. Precarious Families, “Danger,” and Psychiatric Internment in 1960s
Dakar: An Archive of Kin Letters / Romain Tiquet 257
10. Lorry Dreams and Slave Ship Disintegrations: Motion, Madness, and
Incongruent Planes in History / Nancy Rose Hunt 281
Coda. On the Importance of Suffering / Hubertus Büschel 311
Contributors 325
Index 329
Preface xi
1. Introduction. Madness, the Psychopolitical, and the Vernacular:
Rethinking Psychiatric Histories / Nancy Rose Hunt 1
Part I. Writing, Biography, and the Psychopolitics of Decolonization
1. Archives of False Prophets: Inventing the Future in a West African
Psychiatric Hospital / Nana Osei Quarshie 43
2. Missionary Anxieties, Psychopathology, and Decolonization: A
Biographical Approach / Richard Hölzl 68
3. Mr. Tanka and Voices: A Cameroonian Patient Writing about Schizophrenia
/ Hubertus Büschel 93
Part II. Patient Worlds Meet Diagnostic Categories
4. Delirious Words and Social Ambition in French Colonial Madagascar /
Raphaël Gallien 135
5. Sickness and Symptoms as Cultural Capacities in Colonial Ideology /
Jonathan Sadowsky 156
6. Rethinking Brain Fag Syndrome: Students, Symptoms, and a Late Colonial
Survey in Nigeria / Matthew M. Heaton 179
Part III. Practices and Long Durations
7. Casting out Anger: Stress, Possession, and the Everyday in Taita, Kenya
/ Sloan Mahone 209
8. The Universal, the Particular, and Vernacular Resistance in Colonial
Algeria / Richard C. Keller 234
Part IV. Unexpected Archives and Ethnographic Investigations
9. Precarious Families, “Danger,” and Psychiatric Internment in 1960s
Dakar: An Archive of Kin Letters / Romain Tiquet 257
10. Lorry Dreams and Slave Ship Disintegrations: Motion, Madness, and
Incongruent Planes in History / Nancy Rose Hunt 281
Coda. On the Importance of Suffering / Hubertus Büschel 311
Contributors 325
Index 329
List of Figures ix
Preface xi
1. Introduction. Madness, the Psychopolitical, and the Vernacular:
Rethinking Psychiatric Histories / Nancy Rose Hunt 1
Part I. Writing, Biography, and the Psychopolitics of Decolonization
1. Archives of False Prophets: Inventing the Future in a West African
Psychiatric Hospital / Nana Osei Quarshie 43
2. Missionary Anxieties, Psychopathology, and Decolonization: A
Biographical Approach / Richard Hölzl 68
3. Mr. Tanka and Voices: A Cameroonian Patient Writing about Schizophrenia
/ Hubertus Büschel 93
Part II. Patient Worlds Meet Diagnostic Categories
4. Delirious Words and Social Ambition in French Colonial Madagascar /
Raphaël Gallien 135
5. Sickness and Symptoms as Cultural Capacities in Colonial Ideology /
Jonathan Sadowsky 156
6. Rethinking Brain Fag Syndrome: Students, Symptoms, and a Late Colonial
Survey in Nigeria / Matthew M. Heaton 179
Part III. Practices and Long Durations
7. Casting out Anger: Stress, Possession, and the Everyday in Taita, Kenya
/ Sloan Mahone 209
8. The Universal, the Particular, and Vernacular Resistance in Colonial
Algeria / Richard C. Keller 234
Part IV. Unexpected Archives and Ethnographic Investigations
9. Precarious Families, “Danger,” and Psychiatric Internment in 1960s
Dakar: An Archive of Kin Letters / Romain Tiquet 257
10. Lorry Dreams and Slave Ship Disintegrations: Motion, Madness, and
Incongruent Planes in History / Nancy Rose Hunt 281
Coda. On the Importance of Suffering / Hubertus Büschel 311
Contributors 325
Index 329
Preface xi
1. Introduction. Madness, the Psychopolitical, and the Vernacular:
Rethinking Psychiatric Histories / Nancy Rose Hunt 1
Part I. Writing, Biography, and the Psychopolitics of Decolonization
1. Archives of False Prophets: Inventing the Future in a West African
Psychiatric Hospital / Nana Osei Quarshie 43
2. Missionary Anxieties, Psychopathology, and Decolonization: A
Biographical Approach / Richard Hölzl 68
3. Mr. Tanka and Voices: A Cameroonian Patient Writing about Schizophrenia
/ Hubertus Büschel 93
Part II. Patient Worlds Meet Diagnostic Categories
4. Delirious Words and Social Ambition in French Colonial Madagascar /
Raphaël Gallien 135
5. Sickness and Symptoms as Cultural Capacities in Colonial Ideology /
Jonathan Sadowsky 156
6. Rethinking Brain Fag Syndrome: Students, Symptoms, and a Late Colonial
Survey in Nigeria / Matthew M. Heaton 179
Part III. Practices and Long Durations
7. Casting out Anger: Stress, Possession, and the Everyday in Taita, Kenya
/ Sloan Mahone 209
8. The Universal, the Particular, and Vernacular Resistance in Colonial
Algeria / Richard C. Keller 234
Part IV. Unexpected Archives and Ethnographic Investigations
9. Precarious Families, “Danger,” and Psychiatric Internment in 1960s
Dakar: An Archive of Kin Letters / Romain Tiquet 257
10. Lorry Dreams and Slave Ship Disintegrations: Motion, Madness, and
Incongruent Planes in History / Nancy Rose Hunt 281
Coda. On the Importance of Suffering / Hubertus Büschel 311
Contributors 325
Index 329