The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease

By J. Metzl. 2010

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Globalising Mental Health or Pathologising the Global South? Mapping the Ethics, Theory and Practice of Global Mental Health (2014, methodology): “They cite examples ranging from the 19 th century diagnosis of ‘drapetomania’ - given by psychiatrists in the USA to black slaves who attempted to escape captivity; Dr Carother’s psychiatrization and pathologisation of the Mau Mau rebellion in Kenya; to the use of the schizophrenia of the Black Powe”
Introduction: The Politics of Resilience and Recovery in Mental Health Care (2012, neutral): “…diagnosed or pathologized by the psychiatric profession, and how the psychiatric profession has been implicated in processes of colonialism, racism, sexism Studies in Social Justice, Volume 6, Issue 1, 2012 and heterosexism, as well as in disability and war-making (Howell, 2011; Metzl, 2010).”
Systemic racism and U.S. health care. (2014, background): “Beginning in the 1960s, black men seen by clinicians as anti-establishment protestors were frequently diagnosed as “ schizophrenic ” or otherwise mentally ill (Metzl, 2010).”
Structural competency: Theorizing a new medical engagement with stigma and inequality (2014, methodology): “Political protest groups linked health care delivery systems to broader struggles for social justice, such as the Black Panther Party ’ s free clinics that called attention to medical discrimination (Metzl, 2010; Nelson, 2011).”