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Author Metzl, Jonathan, 1964-

Title The protest psychosis : how schizophrenia became a Black disease / Jonathan M. Metzl.

Publication Info. Boston : Beacon Press, [2009]
©2009

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 Windsor, Main Library - Adult Department  362.196898 ME    Check Shelf
Description xxi, 246 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Preface: the protest psychosis -- Homicidal -- Ionia -- She tells very little about her behavior yet shows a lot -- Loosening associations -- Like a family -- The other direction -- Categories -- Octavius Greene had no exit interview -- The persistence of memory -- Too close for comfort -- His actions are determined largely by his emotions -- Revisionist mystery -- A racialized disease -- A metaphor for race -- Turned loose -- Deinstitutionalization -- Raised in a slum ghetto -- Power, knowledge, and diagnostic revision -- Return of the repressed -- Rashamon -- Something else instead -- Locked away -- Diversity -- Inside -- Remnants -- Controllin' the planet -- Conclusion.
Subject African Americans -- Mental health -- Case studies.
Schizophrenia -- United States -- Case studies.
Cultural psychiatry -- United States -- Case studies.
Black or African American -- psychology -- United States -- Case Reports.
Schizophrenia -- diagnosis -- United States -- Case Reports.
Mentally Ill Persons -- United States -- Case Reports.
ISBN 9780807085929 alkaline paper
0807085928 alkaline paper
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