The protest psychosis : how schizophrenia became a black disease / Jonathan M. Metzl.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Metzl, Jonathan, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

African Americans--Mental health--Case studies.

African Americans.

Schizophrenia--Case studies.

Schizophrenia.

Physical Description:

xxi, 246 p.

Place of Publication:

Boston : Beacon Press, 2010, c2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Preface: the protest psychosis

Homicidal

Ionia

She tells very little about her behavior yet shows a lot

Loosening associations

Like a family

The other direction

Categories

Octavius Greene had no exit interview

The persistence of memory

Too close for comfort

His actions are determined largely by his emotions

Revisionist mystery

A racialized disease

A metaphor for race

Turned loose

Deinstitutionalization

Raised in a slum ghetto

Power, knowledge, and diagnostic revision

Return of the repressed

Rashamon

Something else instead

Locked away

Diversity

Inside

Remnants

Controllin' the planet

Conclusion.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

0-8070-8593-6

OCLC:

647833131