Lou Turner and Helen A. Neville (eds), Frantz Fanon's Psychotherapeutic Approaches to Clinical Work: Practicing Internationally with Marginalized Communities (New York:  Routledge, 2020,  291 pp.)

In A Dying Colonialism, Frantz Fanon (1956[1967]) evocatively reminds those of us from the global south, and especially colonial subjects, that the radio program Voice of Free Algeria became a reality when, collectively, Algerians unified against the intrusive voice of notre Maman beamed in via Radio-Alger. With his characteristic precision, Fanon operationalized the psychic intrusion that is constitutive of colonial practices - an intrusion that has a pointed end: to foreclose revolutionary possibilities of liberation, self-determination of the oppressed, and the formation of ‘a new man’ (Fanon, 1952[2008]). In this operationalization, he also highlighted the banality of colonial psychic intrusion, demarcating for us with glaring acuity how what otherwise might be considered mundane, trivial, or even normative in fact works in service of colonial supremacy and, in ‘postcolonial’ eras, coloniality (Maldonado-Torres, 2016). Here, the radio, a fixture of many Algerian households, comes to represent an arm of the state, an ideological propaganda tool and disciplinary mechanism that sketches the contours of a normative subject, psychically and otherwise. Perhaps most disruptive, and central to the psychoanalytic and group process theory Fanon articulated, is how colonial normativity comes to be articulated through active dismemberment, devaluation, and depersonalization (Fanon, 1967), that is,