Schizophrenia and Black Politics: Jonathan Metzl - a podcast by Will Hall, Madness Radio

How did the definition of schizophrenia change during the civil rights and Black Power era of the 1960s? Why did a disease primarily affecting withdrawn white housewives suddenly become focused on angry and"paranoid"African American men instead?

Psychiatrist and historian Jonathan Metzl, author ofThe Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease, discusses racism and social control in psychiatric diagnosis, and how Black protest was turned into a mental disorder.  [Read more...]

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