"...can be of keen interest to historians, social scientists, and psychiatrists....We must be grateful to McCulloch's historical account for supplying additional insight into present-day African challenges and perplexities." Leonard W. Doob, Yale University, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

• Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Psychiatry and colonial practice; 3. Some contemporary reviews of colonial mental health systems; 4. Towards a theory of the African mind; 5. Theory into practice: Carothers and the politics of Mau Mau; 6. African intelligence, sexuality and psyche; 7. The African family and the colonial personality; 8. The elements of orthodoxy; 9. From psychiatry to politics; 10. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

"...can be of keen interest to historians, social scientists, and psychiatrists....We must be grateful to McCulloch's historical account for supplying additional insight into present-day African challenges and perplexities." Leonard W. Doob, Yale University, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

• Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Psychiatry and colonial practice; 3. Some contemporary reviews of colonial mental health systems; 4. Towards a theory of the African mind; 5. Theory into practice: Carothers and the politics of Mau Mau; 6. African intelligence, sexuality and psyche; 7. The African family and the colonial personality; 8. The elements of orthodoxy; 9. From psychiatry to politics; 10. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.

"...can be of keen interest to historians, social scientists, and psychiatrists....We must be grateful to McCulloch's historical account for supplying additional insight into present-day African challenges and perplexities." Leonard W. Doob, Yale University, Journal of Interdisciplinary History

• Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction; 2. Psychiatry and colonial practice; 3. Some contemporary reviews of colonial mental health systems; 4. Towards a theory of the African mind; 5. Theory into practice: Carothers and the politics of Mau Mau; 6. African intelligence, sexuality and psyche; 7. The African family and the colonial personality; 8. The elements of orthodoxy; 9. From psychiatry to politics; 10. Conclusion; Notes; Bibliography; Index.