The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease

A powerful account of how cultural anxieties about race shaped American notions of mental illness The civil...
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Author: Jonathan Metzl
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Language: English
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The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease by Metzl, Jonathan

The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease

¥8,867

The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease

¥8,867
Author: Jonathan Metzl
Format: Paperback
Language: English
A powerful account of how cultural anxieties about race shaped American notions of mental illness

The civil rights era is largely remembered as a time of sit-ins, boycotts, and riots. But a very different civil rights history evolved at the Ionia State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Ionia, Michigan. In The Protest Psychosis, psychiatrist and cultural critic Jonathan Metzl tells the shocking story of how schizophrenia became the diagnostic term overwhelmingly applied to African American protesters at Ionia--for political reasons as well as clinical ones. Expertly sifting through a vast array of cultural documents, Metzl shows how associations between schizophrenia and blackness emerged during the tumultuous decades of the 1960s and 1970s--and he provides a cautionary tale of how anxieties about race continue to impact doctor-patient interactions in our seemingly postracial America.

This book was published with two different covers. Customers will be shipped the book with one of the two covers.

Author: Jonathan Metzl
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 04/12/2011
Pages: 272
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 8.92h x 6.09w x 0.78d
ISBN: 9780807001271

About the Author
Jonathan M. Metzl is associate professor of psychiatry and women's studies and director of the Culture, Health, and Medicine Program at the University of Michigan. A 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, Metzl has written extensively for medical, psychiatry, and popular publications. His books include Prozac on the Couch and Difference and Identity in Medicine. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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