Decolonization of Psychiatry in Jamaica: Madnificent Irations 1st Edition Frederick W. Hickling

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• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3030484882
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-3030484880
• Author(s): Frederick W. Hickling

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.

Table contents:

1. Introduction
2. The History of Madness in Jamaica 1494–1960
3. The Challenge to the Mental Health Ideology of the Colonizer
4. Madnificent Irations: What’s in a Name?
5. Mobilizing Bellevue by Building the Garden Theatre
6. Psychohistoriographic Cultural Therapy: The Technique
7. The Impact of Madnificent Irations
8. Political Sequelae: Destruction of the Garden Theatre
9. Poetic Poiesis and Cultural Therapy
10. Cultural Therapy and Social Engineering

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