Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology - Paperback

by Leswin Laubscher (Editor), Derek Hook (Editor), Miraj U. Desai (Editor)

Fanon, Phenomenology, and Psychology is the first edited collection dedicated to exploring the explicitly phenomenological foundations underlying Frantz Fanon's most important insights.

Featuring contributions from many of the world's leading scholars on Fanon, this volume foregrounds a series of crucial phenomenological topics - inclusive of the domains of experience, structure, embodiment, and temporality - pertaining to the analysis and interrogation of racism and anti-Blackness. Chapters highlight and expand Fanon's ongoing importance to the discipline of psychology while opening compelling new perspectives on psychopathology, decolonial praxis, racialized time, whiteness, Black subjectivity, the "racial ontologizing of the body," systematic structures of racism and resulting forms of trauma, Black Consciousness, and Africana phenomenology.

In an era characterized by resurgent forms of anti-Blackness and racism, this book is essential reading for students, scholars, and activists who remain inspired by Fanon's legacy.

Author Biography

Leswin Laubscher, PhD, is chair of the department of psychology at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, and extraordinary professor in the department of psychology at the University of the Western Cape, South Africa. He is the author of the textbook, An Introduction to Psychology as a Human Science.

Derek Hook, PhD, is associate professor of psychology at Duquesne University, Pittsburgh, and an extraordinary professor of psychology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is the author of Six Moments in Lacan.

Miraj U. Desai, PhD, author of Travel and Movement in Clinical Psychology: The World Outside the Clinic, is on the faculty of the Yale Program for Recovery and Community Health.