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2010 book by Jonathan Metzl
The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease is a 2010 book by the psychiatrist
Jonathan Metzl (who also has a Ph.D. in
American studies ), and published by
Beacon Press ,
[1] covering the history of the 1960s
Ionia State Hospital , located in
Ionia, Michigan , and converted into the
Ionia Correctional Facility in 1986. The book describes the facility as one of America's largest and most notorious state
psychiatric hospitals in the era before
deinstitutionalization .
Metzl focuses on exposing the trend of this hospital to diagnose
African Americans with
schizophrenia because of their
civil rights ideas. He suggests that in part the sudden influx of such diagnoses could be traced to a change in wording in the
DSM-II , which compared to the previous edition added "hostility" and "aggression" as signs of the disorder. Metzl writes that this change resulted in
structural racism .
A 1974 ad for the drug
Haldol published in the medical journal
Archives of General Psychiatry , and reproduced in the book. Author Metzl states that the advertisement shows an attempt to equate racial unrest with mental illness.
The book was well reviewed in
JAMA , where it was described as "a fascinating, penetrating book by one of medicine's most exceptional young scholars."
[2] The book was also reviewed in the
American Journal of Psychiatry ,
[3]
Psychiatric Services ,
[4]
Transcultural Psychiatry ,
[5]
Psychiatric Times ,
[6]
The American Journal of Bioethics ,
[7]
Social History of Medicine ,
[8]
Medical Anthropology Quarterly ,
[9]
Journal of African American History ,
[10]
Journal of Black Psychology ,
[11]
Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine ,
[12] and The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture .
[13]
See also
References
^ Metzl, Jonathan (2010).
The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease .
Beacon Press .
ISBN
978-0-8070-8592-9 .
^ Wear, D. (2010). "The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease".
JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association . 303 (19): 1984.
doi :
10.1001/jama.2010.629 .
^ Luhrmann, T. M. (2010). "The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease".
American Journal of Psychiatry . 167 (4): 479–480.
doi :
10.1176/appi.ajp.2009.09101398 .
^ Bell, Carl (1 August 2011). "The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease".
Psychiatric Services . 62 (8): 979–980.
doi :
10.1176/appi.ps.62.8.979-a .
^ McKenzie, Kwame (July–September 2012). "Jonathan M. Metzl, The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease".
Transcultural Psychiatry . 49 (3–4): 640–642.
doi :
10.1177/1363461512448783 .
S2CID
147556815 .
^ Fernando, Suman (21 October 2010).
"Review – The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease" .
Psychiatric Times .
^ Aultman, Julie (2010). "Review of Jonathan Metzl, The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease".
The American Journal of Bioethics . 10 (11): 37–38.
doi :
10.1080/15265161.2010.520600 .
S2CID
144756226 .
^ Wald, P. (2011). "Jonathan M. Metzl, the Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease".
Social History of Medicine . 24 : 194–195.
doi :
10.1093/shm/hkr027 .
^ Freidenberg, Judith (June 2012). "The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease by Jonathan Metzl".
Medical Anthropology Quarterly . 26 (2): 309–310.
doi :
10.1111/j.1548-1387.2012.01214.x .
^ Johnson, Frank (Fall 2012). "The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease by Jonathan M. Metzl".
Journal of African American History . 97 (4): 499–501.
doi :
10.5323/jafriamerhist.97.4.0499 .
^ Sherry, Alissa (August 2011). "Book Review: Metzl, J. M. (2010). The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease".
Journal of Black Psychology . 37 (3): 381–383.
doi :
10.1177/0095798411407066 .
S2CID
145586438 .
^ Schneider, B. (2011). "Book review: J.M. Metzl, the Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease, Beacon Press: Boston, MA, 2010; 246 pp".
Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine . 15 (2): 213–214.
doi :
10.1177/13634593110150020605 .
S2CID
72580690 .
^ Staub, Michael (2010). "The protest psychosis: how schizophrenia became a black disease".
The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture . 3 (2): 253–255.
doi :
10.1080/17541328.2010.525948 .
S2CID
143107138 .
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