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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. 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.

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A terrific new book . . . exceptional and unexpected. @lt;i@gt;--@lt;/i@gt;Melissa Harris-Lacewell, @lt;i@gt;The Nation @lt;/i@gt;blog@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; A fascinating, penetrating book by one of medicine's most exceptional young scholars. @lt;i@gt;--@lt;/i@gt;Delese Wear@lt;i@gt;, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt; @lt;br@gt; A stunning and disturbing book . . . [A] compelling cultural history that exposes postwar psychiatry's racist character and its enduring legacy. --Robin D. G. Kelley, author of @lt;i@gt;Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt; @lt;br@gt; Part reportage, part analysis, part theory . . . Metzl challenges readers to peel back the layered complexities of race and medicine. --Felicia Pride@lt;i@gt;, The Root@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;i@gt; @lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt; [Metzl] make[s] a powerful case for the way schizophrenia was transformed into a racialized disease. --Christopher Lane@lt;i@gt;,

&ldquo;A stunning and disturbing book.&rdquo; <br>&mdash;Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk <br> The Protest Psychosis &#160;is insightful, challenging, and singularly compelling, presenting intimate narratives of individuals; tracing the organizational history of an institution; and reading these stories through the lens of America's shifting and troubled racial politics. Metzl forces readers to reexamine our deeply held beliefs about the nature of disease, the process of medical diagnosis, and the influence of the political world on our racial ideas. An exceptional book. <br>&mdash;Melissa Harris-Lacewell, author of&#160; Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought <br> Rarely can a book be described as both powerful and measured, but&#160; The Protest Psychosis &#160;is that book. Jonathan Metzl is a psychiatrist with a respect for schizophrenia as a real and serious illness, but in this brilliant page-turner he also breathes life into the

A terrific new book . . . exceptional and unexpected. -- Melissa Harris-Lacewell, The Nation blog <br> A fascinating, penetrating book by one of medicine's most exceptional young scholars. -- Delese Wear, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association <br> A stunning and disturbing book . . . [A] compelling cultural history that exposes postwar psychiatry's racist character and its enduring legacy. --Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original <br> Part reportage, part analysis, part theory . . . Metzl challenges readers to peel back the layered complexities of race and medicine. --Felicia Pride, The Root <br> <br> [Metzl] make[s] a powerful case for the way schizophrenia was transformed into a racialized disease. --Christopher Lane, Psychology Today <br> <br> Metzl addresses a long-standing diagnostic tension in psychiatry with insight, clarity, and informative historical detail. --Health Affairs hift

A terrific new book . . . exceptional and unexpected. Melissa Harris-Lacewell, The Nation blog A fascinating, penetrating book by one of medicine s most exceptional young scholars. Delese Wear, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association A stunning and disturbing book . . . [A] compelling cultural history that exposes postwar psychiatry s racist character and its enduring legacy. Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original Part reportage, part analysis, part theory . . . Metzl challenges readers to peel back the layered complexities of race and medicine. Felicia Pride, The Root [Metzl] make[s] a powerful case for the way schizophrenia was transformed into a racialized disease. Christopher Lane, Psychology Today Metzl addresses a long-standing diagnostic tension in psychiatry with insight, clarity, and informative historical detail. Health Affairs

A terrific new book . . . exceptional and unexpected. -- Melissa Harris-Lacewell, The Nation blog <br> A fascinating, penetrating book by one of medicine's most exceptional young scholars. -- Delese Wear, JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association <br> A stunning and disturbing book . . . [A] compelling cultural history that exposes postwar psychiatry's racist character and its enduring legacy. --Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Thelonious Monk: The Life and Times of an American Original <br> Part reportage, part analysis, part theory . . . Metzl challenges readers to peel back the layered complexities of race and medicine. --Felicia Pride, The Root <br> <br> [Metzl] make[s] a powerful case for the way schizophrenia was transformed into a racialized disease. --Christopher Lane, Psychology Today <br> <br> Metzl addresses a long-standing diagnostic tension in psychiatry with insight, clarity, and informative historical detail. --Health Affairs r ha

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Jonathan M. Metzl is associate professor of psychiatry and women's studies and director of the Culture, Health, and Medicine Program at the University of Michigan. A 2008 Guggenheim Fellowship recipient, Metzl has written extensively for medical, psychiatry, and popular publications. His books include Prozac on the Couch and Difference and Identity in Medicine. He lives in Ann Arbor, Michigan.

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