Author:

• Gil Sevalho - Sevalho, G. - <gsev@terra.com.br>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1370-1856

Co-author(s):

• João Vinícius dos Santos Dias - Dias, J. V. dos Santos - <jovisdi@gmail.com>
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1691-5507

Abstract:

The essay emphasizes the psychosocial reflection of the martinican psychiatrist Frantz Fanon. Fanon’s thought has a critical expression in colonial domination and racism consideration, as in “Black Skin, White Masks” and “The Damned of the Earth”. A literary transcendence signalizes his passionate liberating speech, relevantly present in postcolonial and decolonial theorizations. Fanon is crescently recognized by the political discussion of diasporic contemporary world, although his medico-social ideas and practices, as precursors in mental health assistance, are less known. Referred to by Paulo Freire and Boaventura de Sousa Santos, Fanon gives a fundamental relevance to culture in his sociogenesis and when he criticizes the eurocentric psychoanalysis inadequacy to treat colonial oppression and racism. Cited by Franco Basaglia, Fanon wasn’t a reference to brazilian Psychiatric Reform, but his thought, decolonial and antiracist, is, in perspective, important contribution to Collective Health.

Keywords:

racism and sociogenesis; decolonization; Frantz Fanon; mental health; Collective Health.

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