Tag Archives: psychiatry

Don’t Laugh at the Comics: A Modern Take

Hall, R.C.W., Friedman, S.H. (2020). Don’t Laugh at the Comics: a Modern Take. Acad Psychiatry. https://doi-org/10.1007/s40596-020-01257-2 ABSTRACT: Although comic books may be used to educate the lay public and medical students, the comic book industry and mental health fields have often had a tumultuous relationship—which unfortunately can also yield the opposite result of perpetuating stigma. […]… Read More »

Fanon’s Police Inspector

Fink, A. E. (2019) Fanon’s police inspector, AJOB Neuroscience 10(3), 137-144. Retrieved from https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21507740.2019.1632970 ABSTRACT: Frantz Fanon practiced psychiatry in a colonized Algeria during its struggle for independence. In his 1961 work The Wretched of the Earth, Fanon described cases from his treatment of Algerian nationalists and French colonists. I present one of Fanon’s cases as an ethical inquiry into posttraumatic… Read More »