Fanon, Psychoanalysis, and Critical Decolonial Psychology: The Mind of Apartheid - Paperback

by Derek Hook (Author)

This groundbreaking book examines the psychological dimension of postcolonial thought in reference to foundational texts. Previously published as A Critical Psychology of the Postcolonial, this new edition foregrounds the central role of Fanon's psychology.

Author Biography

Derek Hook is professor in the Department of Psychology at Duquesne University, United States, and an extraordinary professor of psychology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa. He is a scholar and a practitioner of psychoanalysis with expertise in the areas of Lacanian psychoanalysis, post-colonial theory (the work of Frantz Fanon in particular), the psychology of racism, and philosophical and theoretical psychology.