Introduction. Traces of Madness: African Sources and Terrains (20th–21st Century)

The illustration on the cover of this issue comes from a patient file archived in the psychiatric clinic of Fann, in Dakar, Senegal. In addition to clinical observations and one-on-one interviews between psychiatrists, the patient and his entourage, the file held a dozen or so personal drawings and...

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Auteurs principaux: Aïtmehdi, Gina, Evrard, Camille, Gallien, Raphaël, Marquis, Paul
Format: Article ou chapitre numérique
Langue:Anglais
Publié: Sources 2024
Accès en ligne:Accès Université d'Orléans et IFPM
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Résumé:The illustration on the cover of this issue comes from a patient file archived in the psychiatric clinic of Fann, in Dakar, Senegal. In addition to clinical observations and one-on-one interviews between psychiatrists, the patient and his entourage, the file held a dozen or so personal drawings and texts made by the patient during his hospitalisation in the 1960s. This particular drawing represents a face, drawn in profile, its outline worked over multiple times in different colours. Decompo...