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The Wretched of the Earth - Frantz Fanon: Colonial War, Mental Illness, and Psychoanalysis
Red Menace
The Psychology of Colonialism
Fanon was a psychiatrist in France, and he had the weird position of treating torturers and those who survived torture. He has some interesting accounts of treating French policemen that I think are very worth looking into. The first case relates to one of these policemen who's been having negative symptoms because of his responsibility of enacting torture against the Algerian population. We're told that this policeman has had trouble sleeping at night, he's begun to shudder his windows, he stuffs his ear with cotton,. And he plays loud in music in order to drown out some noise that only he can hear.
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