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In The Protest Psychosis, psychiatrist and cultural historian Jonathan Metzl provides an expansive history of how and why schizophrenia came to be associated with race. He sifts through a vast array of cultural documents, from media to films to archived hospital charts, to show how associations between schizophrenia and blackness emerged in the 1960s and 1970s—even as psychiatrists were beginning to understand the biological basis of the illness.

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@lt;i@gt;The Protest Psychosis@lt;/i@gt; 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.--Melissa Harris-Lacewell, author of @lt;i@gt;Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought@lt;/i@gt;@lt;br@gt;@lt;br@gt; Rarely can a book be described as both powerful and measured, but @lt;i@gt;The Protest Psychosis@lt;/i@gt; 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 social history of schizophrenia and amasses compelling evidence of how it

The Protest Psychosis 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.--Melissa Harris-Lacewell, author of Barbershops, Bibles, and BET: Everyday Talk and Black Political Thought <br> Rarely can a book be described as both powerful and measured, but The Protest Psychosis 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 social history of schizophrenia and amasses compelling evidence of how it became a catchall diagnosis fed by racial bias and actively eng

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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. ""From the Trade Paperback edition."""

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