Psychiatric Contours

List of Figures ix
Preface xi
1. Introduction. Madness, the Psychopolitical, and the Vernacular: Rethinking Psychiatric Histories / Nancy Rose Hunt 1
Part I. Writing, Biography, and the Psychopolitics of Decolonization
1. Archives of False Prophets: Inventing the Future in a West African Psychiatric Hospital / Nana Osei Quarshie 43
2. Missionary Anxieties, Psychopathology, and Decolonization: A Biographical Approach / Richard Hölzl 68
3. Mr. Tanka and Voices: A Cameroonian Patient Writing about Schizophrenia / Hubertus Büschel 93
Part II. Patient Worlds Meet Diagnostic Categories
4. Delirious Words and Social Ambition in French Colonial Madagascar / Raphaël Gallien 135
5. Sickness and Symptoms as Cultural Capacities in Colonial Ideology / Jonathan Sadowsky 156
6. Rethinking Brain Fag Syndrome: Students, Symptoms, and a Late Colonial Survey in Nigeria / Matthew M. Heaton 179
Part III. Practices and Long Durations
7. Casting out Anger: Stress, Possession, and the Everyday in Taita, Kenya / Sloan Mahone 209
8. The Universal, the Particular, and Vernacular Resistance in Colonial Algeria / Richard C. Keller 234
Part IV. Unexpected Archives and Ethnographic Investigations
9. Precarious Families, "Danger," and Psychiatric Internment in 1960s Dakar: An Archive of Kin Letters / Romain Tiquet 257
10. Lorry Dreams and Slave Ship Disintegrations: Motion, Madness, and Incongruent Planes in History / Nancy Rose Hunt 281
Coda. On the Importance of Suffering / Hubertus Büschel 311
Contributors 325
Index 329