The Protest Psychosis
How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
Beacon Press · Print & ebook · April 12, 2011
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.
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- Who it’s for
- A cultural history of how race shaped psychiatric diagnosis—and the doctor-patient relationship.
- Genres
- Schizophrenia, African American Studies, Civil Rights
- Published
- Beacon Press, April 12, 2011
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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.
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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.
When Diagnosis Shifts
A cultural history of how race shaped psychiatric diagnosis—and the doctor-patient relationship.
Come here for
- The uneasy intersection of race, psychiatry, and civil rights
- A close look at how diagnoses reflect cultural anxieties
Expect
- An account grounded in the civil rights era and its cultural documents
- A cautionary lens on the persistence of racial assumptions in medicine
Where it sits
| Schizophrenia | 59% |
|---|---|
| Civil Rights | 47% |
| African American Studies | 42% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- History of Psychology
- Schizophrenia
- Race & Discrimination
- Authors
- Jonathan Metzl, Jonathan M. Metzl
- Publisher
- Beacon Press
- Published
- April 12, 2011
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- History of Psychology