Megan Vaughan is a historian of Africa with a long-standing interest in the history of psychiatry and the “psy sciences” in colonial and postcolonial contexts. She is currently professor of African history and health at University College London and distinguished professor at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
Does the spread of psychological counseling techniques in eastern Africa represent a “globalization” of the mind? This essay traces the genealogies of this phenomenon and points to the ways in which a set of imported techniques has been localized.
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