Frances Cress Welsing

Dr Frances Cress Welsing (1935-2016), a Black American psychiatrist, used her psychiatric training and experience to understand racism (White supremacy). She built on the ideas of Carl Jung and Neely Fuller. In 1970 she came out with “The Cress Theory of Color-Confrontation and Racism (White Supremacy)”. That was later expanded into a book, “The Isis Papers” (1991). She passed away yesterday morning, January 2nd.


She grew up in Chicago. Her mother was a teacher, her father and grandfather were doctors. She went to Antioch College and Howard University College of Medicine. She worked most of her life as a psychiatrist in metropolitan Washington, DC, working especially with emotionally troubled schoolchildren.


Just as Frantz Fanon kept coming up against the effects of colonialism in his patients, so she kept coming up against White racism in hers:

“I knew I had to understand racism to help solve the mental health problems of black people.”

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Rest in peace Dr. Frances Cress Welsing 

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