 Fanon’s original studies consider a range of disorders resulting from colonial violence. Some are mental disorders, by which Fanon means a generalized sense of anxiety caused by colonial domination and acted out in discrete parts of the personality. Others bear the disorder on the body and disfigure the person from the inside out or create sexual disorders connected to colonial degradations around femininity and masculinity. As well, Fanon includes a short piece at the end of The Wretched of the Earth on the medicalization of criminality in Algeria, with particular interest in how those disorders might be repurposed for the sake of revolutionary struggle. The studies are very detailed and narrativized, which opens up a new dimension of Fanon as critical observer. The studies also draw out the tension between psychiatric treatment and political ideology, something Fanon would argue is not overlaid on the situation by the therapist, but instead discovered, in therapy, to have been installed by the colonial order. The influence of this aspect of Fanon’s work can be seen in the Black Panther Party’s work in the United States on prisoner reintegration and public health initiatives, all of which were seen as blending care for the oppressed with harnessing revolutionary potential.