History of Medicine and Health: Racism, Mental Health, and Psychiatry
The content delves into the complex relationship between history, medicine, and mental health, highlighting disparities in diagnoses, treatments, and outcomes among different cultural groups. It discusses the impact of colonialism on psychological sciences and the need for a deeper examination of historical perspectives on psychiatry and phrenology.
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Mind, Body, and Society: The History of Medicine and Health (HI176) Psychology and Empire
Racism and Mental Health Black men three times more likely to be diagnosed with schizophrenia than national average. Black British patients four times more likely to be forcibly admitted to psychiatric hospital. Black British psychiatric patients four times more likely to suffer poor outcome following treatment. Source: Jarvis, Schizophrenia in British Immigrants: Recent Findings, Issues and Implications , Transcultural Psychiatry (1998)
Historiography (1976) (1961)
Argument 1. History of psychology best explained through the history of empire. 2. Psychological sciences are often also racial sciences. 3. Historians of psychology need to recover role and agency of colonised people.
Phrenology Phrenological bust by L.N. Fowler c.1850 (Science Museum, London)
Skull of Gunga Bishun Thug (Edinburgh Phrenological Society, HT 122/J34), image taken from Kim Wagner, Confessions of a Skull, History Workshop Journal (2010)
Psychiatry Marthi Mental Hospital, Nairobi, Photograph: Daily Nation
Psychiatry Kamba figure, collected by H. L. Gordon in Kenya, c. 1930 (British Museum, London)
Mau Mau internment camp, Kenya, c.1955 Carothers, The Psychology of Mau Mau (1955)
Psychoanalysis Indian Psychoanalytic Society, Kolkata
Colonial Phrenology Bengali phrenological chart, from R. Das, Manatatva Sarsangraha (Calcutta, 1849)
Anticolonial Psychiatry [I]t is not necessary to be wounded by a bullet in order to suffer from the fact of war in body as well as in mind. Fanon, The Wretched of the Earth (1963) Frantz Fanon (1925-61)
Decolonising Psychiatry There is no evidence to support the view that psychological differences between groups are racially determined. T. Lambo, 1955, quoted in Heaton (2013) Thomas Adeoye Lambo (1923-2004)
