Fanon held that meaningful therapy for the colonized required collective liberation, not individual adjustment

Evidence

For Fanon, the aim of critical psychotherapy was to demystify both the external social and the internal psychic reality by demonstrating their dialectical interdependence. Intervention, he argued, must be at the level of both the individual and the group - to make the patient conscious of his unconscious desire and abandon attempts at hallucinatory whitening, but also to act in the direction of changing the social structure - and hence to transcend individualism, and become involved in the group, in the collective struggle for liberation. — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1339

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Fanon’s therapy coupled individual demystification with collective liberation struggle — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1339; Fanon treats colonized subjects as historical agents, not mere projections — David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1340