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

Author/creator Metzl, Jonathan, 1964-
Format Electronic
Publication InfoBoston : Beacon Press,
Descriptionxxi, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
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Subjects
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.
Persons with Psychiatric Disorders--United States. --Case Reports.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
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Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2009016610
ISBN9780807085929 (alk. paper)
ISBN0807085928 (alk. paper)

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