An Impossible Inheritance : Postcolonial Psychiatry and the Work of Memory in a West African Clinic / Katie Kilroy-Marac.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kilroy-Marac, Katie, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Centre psychiatrique du C.H.U.F. de Dakar.

Psychiatric clinics--Senegal--Dakar.

Psychiatric clinics.

Psychiatry--Senegal--Dakar--History.

Psychiatry.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (285 pages)

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2019]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Weaving sound historical research with rich ethnographic insight, An Impossible Inheritance tells the story of the emergence, disavowal, and afterlife of a distinctive project in transcultural psychiatry initiated at the Fann Psychiatric Clinic in Dakar, Senegal during the 1960s and 1970s. Today's clinic remains haunted by its past and Katie Kilroy-Marac brilliantly examines the complex forms of memory work undertaken by its affiliates over a sixty year period. Through stories such as that of the the ghost said to roam the clinic's halls, the mysterious death of a young doctor sometimes attributed to witchcraft, and the spirit possession ceremonies that may have taken place in Fann's courtyard, Kilroy-Marac argues that memory work is always an act of the imagination and a moral practice with unexpected temporal, affective, and political dimensions. By exploring how accounts about the Fann Psychiatric Clinic and its past speak to larger narratives of postcolonial and neoliberal transformation, An Impossible Inheritance examines the complex relationship between memory, history, and power within the institution and beyond.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Entanglements

Rupture: Chasing a Ghost

1. Archiving Madness: From Colonial Psychiatry to the Establishment of Fann

Interlude: Many Battles

2. Origin Stories: Collomb's Fann and Senghor's Senegal

Rupture: A Letter Unanswered

3. Nostalgic for Modernity (Or, Looking Back on a Golden Age)

Interlude: A Terrible Cry fr om the Past

4. The Ink That Marked History

Interlude: Each in His Corner

5. Strategic Ambivalence

Rupture: A Thing I Could Not See (The Joola)

6. Distinctions of the Present

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 06. Apr 2020)

ISBN:

9780520971691

0520971698

OCLC:

1075545919