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Preface The Protest Psychosis
Part I Ionia
1 Homicidal
2 Ionia
Part II Alice Wilson
3 She Tells Very Little about Her Behavior Yet Shows a Lot
4 Loosening Associations
5 Like a Family
Part III Octavius Greene
6 The Other Direction
7 Categories
8 Octavius Greene Had No Exit Interview
9 The Persistence of Memory
Part IV Caeser Williams
10 Too Close for Comfort
11 His Actions Are Determined Largely by His Emotions
12 Revisionist Mystery
13 A Racialized Disease
14 A Metaphor for Race
Part V Rasheed Karim
15 Turned Loose
16 Deinstitutionalization
17 Raised in a Slum Ghetto
18 Power, Knowledge, and Diagnostic Revision
19 Return of the Repressed
20 Rashomon
21 Something Else Instead
Part VI Remnants
22 Locked Away
23 Diversity
24 Inside
25 Remnants
26 Controllin’ the Planet
27 Conclusion
Acknowledgments Notes Index
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Robert Kidde
reviewed The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease on August 04, 2010
The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
This is the book I've been looking for. It didn't full fill all my fantasies that I had for it, but it was worth reading.
I don't think Metzl is the best writer. I waffled between feeling like his scope was too broad and feeling like his sources were too limited. At times I felt like each chapter read somewhat like a high school English paper, using an only marginally related quote or literary reference garnered from a google search to open the paper.
On the other hand, Metzl situated diagnosis and the psychiatric institution in a social/historical context in a way that is thoughtful, relevant, and an uncommon undertaking. As a psychiatrist himself, he is careful to acknowledge the usefulness of diagnosis and at the same time argues that it is impossible to extricate the process from the social context (at least that's what I think he's saying).
He uses archives and oral history interviews from the Ionia, Michigan psychiatric hospital(now a prison)as a case study to trace the shift in diagnosis of schizophrenia from one of benign, white-middle class femininity worthy of pity and attempts at reintegration to it's current status of volatile, violent, black masculinity needing containment, a process parallel to the 60s and 70s black power and civil rights movements. He integrates (though somewhat clumsily) pharmaceutical marketing and pop culture to illustrate this shift.
From the final chapter: "History thus lets us begin to understand why, in the present day, schizophrenia remains at once pathologized and pathologizing, and signifies both teh need to maintain order and a political imperative to disrupt it...at a particular moment in time, schizophrenia became both a racialized disease and a metaphor of race in the United States."
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