Jonathan Metzl
Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Michigan
Jonathan M. Metzl, MD, PhD, is a psychiatrist who also has a Ph.D. in American Studies. He is Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Women's Studies and Director of Program in Culture, Health, and Medicine at the University of Michigan. In this capacity he works as a Senior Attending Physician in the adult psychiatric clinics and teaches courses in the areas of history of psychiatry, gender, and health at the undergraduate and graduate levels. He is the author of "Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs" (Duke University Press, 2003), and of "The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease" (Beacon Press, 2010).
Defining mental illnesses as precisely as bodily disorders will require more advanced neuroscience, but also a deeper understanding of insanity’s cultural context.
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In the racially charged 1960s, dissent was redefined as insanity, and insanity as criminal behavior. Countless patients are still living with the consequences.
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How the racial coding of mental illness has influenced everything from Martin Luther King, Jr.’s sermons to popular music.
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What is schizophrenia? As the psychiatrist and author of “The Protest Psychosis” explains, its definition has shifted radically over time, becoming increasingly tied to racial politics.
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A conversation with the Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Women’s Studies at the University of Michigan.
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