Review Article: Writing the history of postcolonial and transcultural psychiatry in Africa

General

A review article in History of the Human Sciences by Ana Antic may interest AHP readers. Antic reviews recent scholarship on the history of psychiatry in Africa in “Writing the history of postcolonial and transcultural psychiatry in Africa,” focusing on two recent books:

Katie Kilroy-Marac, An Impossible Inheritance: Postcolonial Psychiatry and the Work of Memory in a West African Clinic. Berkeley, CA: University of California Press, 2019, 288 pages, ISBN: 9780520300200

Yolana Pringle, Psychiatry and Decolonisation in Uganda. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019, 259 pages, ISBN: 9781137600943

About Jacy Young

Jacy Young is a professor at Quest University Canada. A critical feminist psychologist and historian of psychology, she is committed to critical pedagogy and public engagement with feminist psychology and the history of the discipline.