The Phenomenon of Agitation in the Psychiatric Milieu

In the hallucinatory process, we see the collapse of the world turn into a system of reference.

In 1957, Frantz Fanon co-authored a paper with his colleague at the Blida-Joinville Psychiatric Hospital in Algeria, Slimane Asselah, called “The Phenomenon of Agitation in the Psychiatric Milieu.” Responding to another paper by François Tosquelles that established a set of rules for psychiatrists to follow in diagnosing and treating psychomotor agitati…