THE FUTURE OF ALIENATION AND THE POSSIBILITIES OF FANONIAN  SOCIODIAGNOSTICS

Dana Miranda

doi:10.20873/uft.2179-3948.2020v11n2p53

Authors

Dana Miranda University of Massachusetts Boston

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20873/uft.2179-3948.2020v11n2p53

Keywords:

psychosocial, disorder, situatedness, depression, dysbeing

Abstract

The work of the Afro-Martinican psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon is crucial to understanding the psychological and socio-political causes of disorder. Drawing upon his corpus, this article details the radical potential for disalienation located within his sociodiagnostic method and argues that personal and structural well-being can only be achieved together. This article will also both psychiatric and phenomenological models of depression as experienced by Africana people in order to better illuminate the usefulness of sociodiagnostics.

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