Frantz Fanonâs Psychotherapeutic Approaches To Clinical Work

Recognizing Frantz Fanonâs remarkable legacy to applied mental health and therapeutic practices which decolonize, humanize, and empower marginalized populations, this text serves as a timely call for research, education, and clinical work to establish and further develop Fanonian approaches and practices.

As the first collection to focus on contemporary clinical applications of Fanonâs research and practice, this volume adopts a transnational lens through which to capture the global reach of Fanonâs work. Contributors from Africa, Australia, Europe, and North America offer nuanced insight into historical and theoretical methods, clinical case studies, and community-based innovations to place Fanonâs research and practice in context. Organized into four key areas, including the Historical Significance of Fanonâs Clinical Work, Theory and Fanonian Praxis, Psychotherapeutic and Community Applications, and Action Research, each section of the book reflects an impressive diversity of practices around the world, and considers the role of political and socioeconomic context, structures of gender oppression, racial identities, and their intersection within those practices.

A unique manifesto to the ground-breaking and immensely relevant work of Frantz Fanon, this book will be of great interest to graduate and post graduate students, researchers, academics and professionals in counselling psychology, mental health research, and psychotherapy.