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The Hello everybody and welcome back to Red Menace. So on today's episode we are finishing our series on France Fanons the Wretched of the Earth

and we're covering his two concluding chapters, one on colonial war and mental

disorders and then one just titled Conclusion. As always if you like what we do here at Red Menace, you can support us by supporting our Patreon.

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really want to do anything else as far as preamble's. Let's just go ahead and get into these last

couple chapters of Franz Vanan's The Wretched of the Earth.

Allison, take it away. We're going to talk about this last chapter which is a little bit

different than the chapters that we've discussed so far and it's worth sort of giving some introduction in terms of what's happening in this chapter.

So while our previous chapters have kind of been focused on the more macro scale development of colonization, decolonization, and then

independence, Phnom turns in a really different direction here and he moves towards looking

at sort of case studies of mental illness in the context of

colonialism that he saw firsthand. So Phnom, when he was in Algeria originally,

was working at a hospital and found himself actually in a very strange situation

where he was simultaneously working as a psychiatrist treating French soldiers

and policemen who had

over seen torture and overseeing the treatment of Algerian revolutionaries who had survived torture.

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