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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"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"
"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 engineered by an ugly social agenda. And Metzl's
sensitive analysis of this tragedy supplies much more than damning
evidence: he also offers positive solutions that can contribute to
a future devoid of the racial skewering that blights the lives of
misdiagnosed black Americans."--Harriet A. Washington, author of
"Medical Apartheid: The Dark History of Medical Experimentation on
Black Americans from Colonial Times to the Present"
"A stunning and disturbing book. Jonathan Metzl shows how white
fears of black militancy, radical shifts in diagnoses, the
pharmaceutical industry's promotion of new antipsychotic drugs, and
the rise of a carceral state converged to invent the schizophrenic
Negro. "The Protest Psychosis" is a compelling cultural history
that exposes postwar psychiatry's racist character and its enduring
legacy."--Robin D. G. Kelley, author "Thelonious Monk: The Life and
Times of an American Original"
"In this riveting book, Jonathan Metzl anatomizes the ways in which
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