Abstract
This article presents the unique history of psychiatry in the island of Martinique in the time of slavery to today. In the list of traumatogenic events reported by the DSM-IV and DSM-5 slavery is not. Nevertheless, the article discusses ever studied psychiatrically the trauma of slavery and its transgenerational transmission to people today; it compares the fate of the fool and the slave, it describes the symptoms and treatment from the seventeenth to the nineteenth century and it tells the remarkable psychiatric innovation that was the Health House of St. Peter to be buried May 8, 1902 under the burning ashes with the hopes of the supply of psychiatric care.
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