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Frantz Fanon

  • Ibrahim Frantz Fanon
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Fanon, Frantz
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Date of birth
1925-07-20
Place of birth
Fort-de-France
Date of death
1961-12-06
Place of death
Bethesda

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Frantz Omar Fanon (, US: ; French: [fʁɑ̃ts fanɔ̃]; 20 July 1925 – 6 December 1961) was a Francophone Afro-Caribbean psychiatrist, political philosopher, and Marxist from the French colony of Martinique (today a French department). His works have become influential in the fields of post-colonial studies, critical theory, and Marxism. As well as being an intellectual, Fanon was a political radical, Pan-Africanist, and Marxist humanist concerned with the psychopathology of colonization and the human, social, and cultural consequences of decolonization.

In the course of his work as a physician and psychiatrist, Fanon supported the Algerian War of independence from France and was a member of the Algerian National Liberation Front. Fanon has been described as "the most influential anticolonial thinker of his time". For more than five decades, the life and works of Fanon have inspired national liberation movements and other freedom and political movements in Palestine, Sri Lanka, South Africa, and the United States. He formulated a model for community psychology, believing that many mental health patients would do better if they were integrated into their family and community instead of being treated with institutionalized care. He also helped found the field of institutional psychotherapy while working at Saint-Alban under Francois Tosquelles and Jean Oury.

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French West-Indian philosopher and psychiatrist.

Last modified: 2020-10-17 (revision #34049)

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Goodreads Author ID
37728
ISNI
0000 0001 2098 1385
LibraryThing Author
fanonfrantz
OpenLibrary Author ID
OL134914A
VIAF
22490
Wikidata ID
Q193670

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