Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology

Laubscher, Leswin; Hook, Derek; Desai, Miraj U.

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“…To open, we draft a brief and incomplete topology of Fanon's intellectual contributions (see Bulhan, 1985 and Laubscher et al., 2021 detailed analyses) as interlaced with the comradeship that he offered (and continues to offer) liberation struggles. Fanon's life is infused with moments of direct confrontation as he moves between the academy/clinical practice and the frontiers of struggle.…”

Section: “Every Brother On a Rooftop Can Quote Fanon”: A Partial Stor...mentioning

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The comrade on the crossroads of scholarship and struggle: Troubling the exile of Frantz Fanon from social and political psychology

Abi‐Ghannam

Perkins

Fine

2023

Social & Personality Psych

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This article traces the presence and absence of Frantz Fanon in the field of social and political psychology. Our work is guided by an assemblage of methods— a critical analysis of mainstream scholarship, a collective interrogation with a transnational gathering of colleagues and friends, and a deep reading of Fanon's texts on struggle, internalized oppression, violence and a new humanism. Through this, our paper is a call for radical disciplinary reflection on why Fanon has been ruthlessly exiled from social/political psychology, the potential his writings hold for courses, scholarship, and struggle, and how we might more boldly theorize, as he did, from within the fire of struggles for justice and liberation.

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Section: “Every Brother On a Rooftop Can Quote Fanon”: A Partial Stor...mentioning

confidence: 99%

The comrade on the crossroads of scholarship and struggle: Troubling the exile of Frantz Fanon from social and political psychology

Abi‐Ghannam

Perkins

Fine

2023

Social & Personality Psych

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“…In this study, the concrete examples consisted of providers' work with clients of color within institutional contexts. Given that this qualitative method does not proceed deductively from established psychological theory, it is particularly suited for examining phenomena for which there are limited information and that concern minoritized populations that have often been excluded from psychological science (Desai, 2018;Laubscher et al, 2022).…”

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“…We have followed established phenomenological analytic procedures articulated by Davidson and others (Davidson, 2003;Malterud, 2012;Sells et al, 2004), and our underlying epistemological approach is informed by phenomenological psychology (Davidson, 2003;Giorgi, 2009;Wertz et al, 2011Wertz et al, , 2018, with extensions for racial and sociocultural considerations (Cosgrove & Davidson, 1991, 2002Desai, 2014;Laubscher et al, 2022). The first technical step in the analysis of interview data involved two team members conducting close readings of each individual interview, line by line, to identify specific verbatim lines that speak most directly to the study questions.…”

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System-Centered Care: How Bureaucracy and Racialization Decenter Attempts at Person-Centered Mental Health Care

Desai

Paranamana

Dovidio

et al. 2022

Clinical Psychological Science

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In this study, we explored structural biases in mental health organizations in the context of person-centered care—an emerging framework for health systems globally. The findings revealed how institutional structures powerfully condition clinical operations and providers, creating a risk that clients will be systemically seen as nonpersons, that is, as racialized or bureaucratic objects. Specifically, we elucidate how racial profiles could become determinants of care within institutions and how another, covert form of institutional objectification could emerge, in which clients are reduced to unseen bureaucratic objects. The findings illuminated a basic psychosocial process through which staff could become unwitting carriers of systemic agenda and intentionality—a type of “bureaucra-think”—and also how some providers pushed against this climate. These findings, and emergent novel concepts, add to the severely limited research on institutional bias and racism within psychological science.

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“…Ture drew on the work of several intellectuals of his day, including the psychiatrist Frantz Fanon, who will be discussed shortly, and the psychologist Kenneth Clark, whose own work, and pioneering collaborations with Mamie Phipps Clark that helped end school segregation, have been insufficiently highlighted in psychology, as evidenced, for instance, by a recent APA Commission on Ethnic Minority Recruitment, Retention, and Training in Psychology Task Force Textbook Initiative Work Group (2004) on Introductory Psychology textbooks. Frantz Fanon is increasingly considered the founding figure of a genuinely anti-racist and decolonial psychology (Adams et al, 2015;Bulhan, 1985;Burman, 2017;Gaztambide, 2021;Hook, 2005;Laubscher et al, 2022;Maldonado-Torres, 2017;Turner & Neville, 2020;Utsey et al, 2001;Watkins, 2015), and of the entire field of global health, the latter designation being offered by the editor of the influential medical journal, The Lancet (Horton, 2018). And yet Fanon's most lasting influence up to this point may be on social movements, community groups, and intellectual domains outside of psychology and psychiatry, from political science and philosophy to literary theory and African American studies.…”

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Perspectives (of People of Color) on Psychological Science: Does Psychological Science Listen?

Desai

Laubscher

Johnson

2022

Review of General Psychology

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It remains to be seen whether the American Psychological Association’s new apology and resolutions on racism will help redress longstanding inequities in the field. To be sure, critiques of psychological science vis-à-vis racism have been around for decades, despite being ignored by psychological science, even when spoken by Dr. King—in his profound meditation on science, psychology, and racism in a speech delivered to the APA—or by psychiatrist Frantz Fanon—who has had a foundational influence on the broader history of anti-racism scholarship but remains relatively disregarded in his own psy-fields. This article addresses the viewpoints of these and other people of color on psychological science, which have yet to be adequately incorporated into the perspectives of psychological science. We also address traditions of communities of color that have become absorbed or consumed by psychological science but often after their cultural and historical origins are erased, like Buddhism. We locate these racial and scientific dynamics, and associated patterns of neglect and erasure, within a longstanding aversion in and by psychological science—here understood as a collective actor unto itself—to perspectives of people of color. Consequently, the promise not only of diversity, but of desegregation, has yet to be fulfilled within psychology. We conclude by discussing the psychosocial power of social movements—including South Africa’s apartheid-related Truth and Reconciliation process as personally experienced by our second author—to suggest elements of pathways forward.

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Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology

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The comrade on the crossroads of scholarship and struggle: Troubling the exile of Frantz Fanon from social and political psychology

The comrade on the crossroads of scholarship and struggle: Troubling the exile of Frantz Fanon from social and political psychology

System-Centered Care: How Bureaucracy and Racialization Decenter Attempts at Person-Centered Mental Health Care

Perspectives (of People of Color) on Psychological Science: Does Psychological Science Listen?

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