Hallucinating patients create protective counter-voices to defend against accusing ones
Evidence
The appearance of themes of morbid protection, their importance as a technique of self-defense and even of self-cure in the historic development of mental disease, have already been studied in classic psychiatry. Plagued by his accusing “voices,” the victim of hallucinations has no other recourse but to create friendly voices. This mechanism of transformation into its antithesis that we here point out has its counterpart in the disintegrating colonial situation. — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 341
Categorization
- DEFINE: Defines ‘morbid protection’ as the psychiatric mechanism of creating friendly voices against accusing ones — applied later to the colonial situation.
- XREF: The reader’s interest in how colonial medicine treated the European minority connects here — this psychiatric framework is Fanon’s clinical lens. — connects to: Hallucinated protective voices parallel the colonized creating a national voice; Friendly voices arise as psychiatric self-defense against accusing voices; People unconsciously avoid confronting evidence that contradicts their sense of safety — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 229 (+3 more)
Related
- Friendly voices arise as psychiatric self-defense against accusing voices (similarity 0.93)
- Hallucinated protective voices parallel the colonized creating a national voice (similarity 0.90)
Broader Connections
- People instinctively generate noise to assert existence against overwhelming emptiness
#expands(0.65) — George Michelsen Foy, Zero Decibels, 224 - People unconsciously avoid confronting evidence that contradicts their sense of safety
#expands(0.60) — Julien Gracq, Balcony in the Forest, 229 - The rebel radio induced auditory hallucinations in colonists and collaborators
#complicates(0.45) — Frantz Fanon, A Dying Colonialism, 343 - Psychiatric treatment pressure can coerce innocent youths into false confessions
#expands(0.45) — Hilary Mantel, A Memoir of My Former Self- A Life in…, 494