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• W1487967544 abstract "Colonial Madness: Psychiatry in French North Africa. By Richard C. Keller. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2007. Pp. 294; illustrations. $70.00/ £44.50 cloth, $25.00/£16.00 paper. This book is about far more than the title implies. It is actually about the psychology of the colonial encounter itself, and what a damning account it is. Richard C. Keller, who teaches medical history and the history of science at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, has revised his dissertation into one of the most interesting and innovative analyses of colonial medicine that I have read. He shows how Antoine Porot, a progressive and reform minded psychiatrist, tried to build a model hospital that was suited to the culture, economy, and geography of Algeria. The hospital would offer the latest in modern psychiatric methods for both French and Muslim patients, and would have gardens, recreational facilities, and places of worship for all patients in contrast to the old lunatic asylums with their depressing architecture and medieval practices. The hospital would become a center for the study of colonial psychology and ethnicity. The projected hospital was expensive, but was finally approved and constructed as a showpiece to celebrate and advertise France's beneficence to its colonies during the centenary of the 1830 conquest of Algiers. By the 1950s, the hospital and other research centers in French North Africa were internationally renowned for advances in colonial psychiatry. Keller, however, observes that assumptions about the inferiority of the native underlay the colonial scientific discourse. Since the nineteenth century, French physicians had considered the natives to be criminally inclined because of climate and race. In the 1930s, French psychiatrists generally considered North African Muslims to be inherently violent, fatalistic, superstitious, debilitated, amoral, pathological, and altogether a threat to public safety. Medicine was, therefore, deployed to defend colonial power against the North African mentality. Progressive psychiatrists with Utopian visions were an integral part of a militantly racist colonial order that they did not think to question or challenge. The Arabs were not compatible with the settlers, so the two communities had to be separated. In 1937, a Moroccan student allegedly attempted suicide when he realized that he could never be truly French. By the Second World War, French colonial psychiatry had become the noted Algiers School. Scientists no longer wrote about the native's inherent violence or sexuality. Now the Algiers School argued that multiple factors including traditions and customs kept North Africans from assimilating into French society. Since education could not overcome the banier between civilization and primitiveness, the solution had to be coercive. Keller spends much time on Franz Fanon and other luminaries of the colonial encounter such as Albert Memmi and Kateb Yassine. He relies on Fanon's argument that medicine was used as a weapon during the Algerian Revolution, but criticizes him for his belief in the cleansing power of violence. Fanon had pointed out that by prohibiting the sale of medical supplies to Algerians, by using doctors and psychiatrists as torturers and by requiring physicians to report the wounded, medicine became a tool of force. …" @default.
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