The True Chronicles Of The Blida-Joinville Psychiatric Hospital From The Last Century When Dr Frantz Fanon was Head of Fifth Ward Between 1953 & 1956
In 1953, colonized Algeria, Fanon, a young black psychiatrist, was appointed head doctor at the Blida-Joinville Hospital. He was putting his theories of ‘Institutional Psychotherapy’ into practice in opposition to the racist theories of the Algiers School of Psychiatry, while a war broke out in his own wards.