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Consider Franz Fanon, the canonical defender of violent anti-colonial resistance. He was also a psychiatrist who saw both French and Algerian patients. He saw the symptoms of the colonial illness among both groups. Ending that regime was a matter of healing all involved.

Although he embraced very different methods from those of, say, Martin Luther King or Gandhi, he shared the recognition that asymmetric occupations harm the occupier and the occupied alike.