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Unit 6
Grades 9-10
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The Doctor Who Treated Both the Torturer and the Tortured

In November 1953, Fanon took up a position as chef de service, head of a psychiatric department, at Blida-Joinville Hospital outside Algiers, then the largest psychiatric facility in French colonial Algeria. Fanon arrived hoping to apply "sociotherapy," a treatment approach…

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