Jonathan M. Metzl
The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
- ISBN 13:
- 9780807001271
- author:
- Jonathan M. Metzl
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- Beacon Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2011
- Pages:
- 246
- Dimensions:
- 15 x 2 x 22.6 cm
- Genre:
- Social Sciences Economic Sociology Textbook
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 20 working days
Description
The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease A powerful account of how cultural anxieties about race shaped American notions of mental illness. During the civil rights era, a very different story unfolded at Ionia State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Michigan. Psychiatrist and cultural critic Jonathan Metzl reveals how schizophrenia became the diagnostic term overwhelmingly applied to African American protesters - not just for clinical reasons, but also due to political motivations. Metzl expertly sifts through a vast array of cultural documents to show how associations between schizophrenia and blackness emerged during the tumultuous decades of the 1960s and 1970s. This book provides a cautionary tale of how anxieties about race continue to impact doctor-patient interactions in our seemingly postracial America. Published in 2011, this book was released with two different covers. You will receive one of these covers when you purchase your copy.
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