The Protest Psychosis by Jonathan Metzl

The Protest Psychosis by Jonathan Metzl

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.

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Jonathan M. is the author of the book Jonathan M. Frederick B. Metzl is the Frederick B. Metzl is the Frederick B. Metzl is Vanderbilt University's Center for Medicine, Health, and Society is directed by Rentschler II, a professor of sociology and psychiatry. He is a well-known expert on gun violence and mental illness and the author of several publications. He was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, and now resides in Nashville, Tennessee.

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ISBN 13	9780807001271
ISBN 10	0807001279
Title	The Protest Psychosis
Author	Jonathan Metzl
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Beacon Press
Year published	2011-04-12
Number of pages	272
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