Suzanne Taïeb, one of the only female Arabic-speaking colonial psychiatrists, worked at the Psychiatric Hospital of Blida-Joinville between 1936 & 1942. Her detailed case studies allow us to follow some Algerian women through the colonial medical system. #ColonialPsychiatry #histmed 🗃️

This is a big one for me: My article on Maurice Boigey is now out & it is Open Access (www.sgg-ssh.ch/fr/szg/szg-r...)! Boigey wrote the most racist text on Muslims in all of French #ColonialPsychiatry, his "Psychological Study on Islam", in 1908... #histmed #FrenchColonialism #Racism #Orientalism

This is the only image of Maurice Boigey that I've come across: The "author" of the most racist text in all of French #ColonialPsychiatry in #NorthAfrica which he completely plagiarised from one of France's most infamous late 19th-century antisemites... #histmed #Islamophobia #ScientificRacism 🗃️

#ColonialPsychiatry #HistoryOfRacism #ScientificRacism #FrenchColonialism & more, please share so more in the field see it! The title is: "'Mahomet Implanted a Real Neuropathic State in the Brains of Believers': North African Masculinities and Colonial Psychiatry in the Writings of Maurice Boigey"!

Really looking forward to this meeting on "Psychiatry, Gender and Race" at the TELEMMe in Aix-en-Provence on the 28th of May: telemme.mmsh.fr?evenement=ps...

I will be talking about gender and colonial psychiatry in Algeria!

#histmed #Colonialism #ColonialPsychiatry 🗃️

& I found out that it was entirely plagiarised from an extremely problematic source! While Boigey has long been decried as the most extreme author in French #ColonialPsychiatry, this adds a completely new dimension to his legacy! Have a look at my article, and if you work on #HistoryOfPsychiatry ...

Quote from: Bouquet, Henry. Les aliénés en Tunisie. Med. Thesis, University of Lyon, 1909, p. 32. #DrinkingStudies #ColonialPsychiatry #ColonialMedicine #histmed #HistoryOfSexuality #Aphrodisiacs #Orientalism #FrenchColonialism

Ref.: Taïeb, Suzanne. Les idées d’influence dans la pathologie mentale de l’indigène nord-africain. Med. Thesis, University of Algiers, 1939, p. 87f. #ColonialPsychiatry #histmed #FrenchColonialism #MuslimWomen #Magic 🗃️

Thanks so much for putting this together, Jennifer. Fantastic list! I am not currently working on the history of psychiatry, but I did write my Ph.D. (published in 2016) on #ColonialPsychiatry in North Africa.

So proud that my article "'Mahomet Implanted a Real Neuropathic State in the Brains of Believers': North African Masculinities and Colonial Psychiatry in the Writings of Maurice Boigey" is now out - and #OpenAccess: bsky.app/profile/drni... #histmed #ColonialPsychiatry #Colonialism #Racism 🗃️

If you're intrigued, do have a look at my new #OpenAccess article on him, his plagiarism & historical importance! The photo can be found in his obituary by H.L. Rocher: Maurice Boigey (1877-1952), Presse Médicale 61/26 (15.04.1953), p. 558. #histmed #ColonialPsychiatry #Islamophobia #ScientifRacism

about which the [French] doctor can't do anything. ‘It’s the Jinn in my belly. You mustn’t think I’m crazy because of that.’" With that explanation, she refused further examination, which kept her from being reintroduced into the colonial system. #ColonialPsychiatry #histmed 🗃️