Description: 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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Narrative Type: book
Type: book
Intended Audience: General/trade
Book Title: Protest Psychosis : How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
Number of Pages: 272 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: Beacon Press
Topic: Discrimination & Race Relations, Psychopathology / Schizophrenia, Psychiatry / General, History, Ethnic Studies / African American Studies
Item Height: 0.7 in
Publication Year: 2011
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Social Science, Psychology, Medical
Item Weight: 15.6 Oz
Author: Jonathan Metzl
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
