The Protest Psychosis How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease

A powerful account of how cultural anxieties about race shaped American notions of mental illness The Protest Psychosisunearths how associations between schizophrenia and blackness emerged during the U.S. civil rights era, and provides a cautionary tale of how anxieties about race continue to impact doctor-patient interactions.

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.

Preface The Protest Psychosis
 
Part I Ionia
1 Homicidal
2 Ionia
 
Part II Alice Wilson
3 She Tells Very Little about Her Behavior Yet Shows a Lot
4 Loosening Associations
5 Like a Family
 
Part III Octavius Greene
6 The Other Direction
7 Categories
8 Octavius Greene Had No Exit Interview
9 The Persistence of Memory
 
Part IV Caeser Williams
10 Too Close for Comfort
11 His Actions Are Determined Largely by His Emotions
12 Revisionist Mystery
13 A Racialized Disease
14 A Metaphor for Race
 
Part V Rasheed Karim
15 Turned Loose
16 Deinstitutionalization
17 Raised in a Slum Ghetto
18 Power, Knowledge, and Diagnostic Revision
19 Return of the Repressed
20 Rashomon
21 Something Else Instead
 
Part VI Remnants
22 Locked Away
23 Diversity
24 Inside
25 Remnants
26 Controllin’ the Planet
27 Conclusion
 
Acknowledgments
Notes
Index