Frantz Fanon's psychiatric career was crucial to his thinking as an anti-colonialist writer and activist. Much of his iconic work was shaped by his experiences working in hospitals in France, Algeria and Tunisia. The writing collected here was written from 1951 to 1960 in tandem with his political work and reveals much about how Fanon's thought developed, showing that, for him, psychiatry was part of a much wider socio-political struggle. His political, revolutionary and literary lives should not then be separated from the psychiatric practice and writings that shaped his thinking about oppression, alienation and the search for freedom.
Biografie (Frantz Fanon)
Frantz Fanon, 1925 in Martinique geboren, studierte in Frankreich Philosophie und Medizin. Während des 2. Weltkrieges kämpfte er als Partisan. 1953 ging er als Chefarzt in eine französische psychatrische Klinik bei Algier. Er wurde Mitglied der algerischen Befreiungsfront FLN. Er starb im Dezember 1961 bei New York an Leukämie.