Overview
Draws on research, history and personal experience to present a manifesto for decolonizing consciousness
Maps out the process of deinstitutionalizing patients with chronic mental illness
Makes a connection between psychiatric hospitalization and a centuries-long history of oppression
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Table of contents (10 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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 Jamaica’s political and social history, and the author’s 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.Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Frederick W. Hickling is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at the University of the West Indies at Mona, Jamaica. He was elected Distinguished Life Fellow of the American Psychiatric Association in 2008, received the Royal College of Psychiatrists Fellowship, UK, in 2011, and was made Commander in the Order of Distinction Jamaica in 2012.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Decolonization of Psychiatry in Jamaica
Book Subtitle: Madnificent Irations
Authors: Frederick W. Hickling
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-48489-7
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48488-0Published: 15 September 2021
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-48491-0Published: 16 September 2022
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-48489-7Published: 14 September 2021
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 250
Number of Illustrations: 4 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour
Topics: Cross Cultural Psychology, Psychiatry, Ethnicity, Class, Gender and Crime, Latin American/Caribbean Literature, Postcolonial Philosophy, Psychotherapy and Counseling