The Protest Psychosis

The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
Author	Jonathan Metzl
Country	United States
Subject	Psychiatry
Publisher	Beacon Press
Publication date	2010
Media type	Print
Pages	246
ISBN	0-8070-8592-8
OCLC	319496892

The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease is a 2010 book by the psychiatrist Jonathan Metzl (who also has a Ph.D. in American studies), and published by Beacon Press,^[1] covering the history of the 1960s Ionia State Hospital, located in Ionia, Michigan, and converted into the Ionia Correctional Facility in 1986. The book describes the facility as one of America's largest and most notorious state psychiatric hospitals in the era before deinstitutionalization.

Metzl focuses on exposing the trend of this hospital to diagnose African Americans with schizophrenia because of their civil rights ideas. He suggests that in part the sudden influx of such diagnoses could be traced to a change in wording in the DSM-II, which compared to the previous edition added "hostility" and "aggression" as signs of the disorder. Metzl writes that this change resulted in structural racism.

The book was well reviewed in JAMA, where it was described as "a fascinating, penetrating book by one of medicine's most exceptional young scholars."^[2] The book was also reviewed in the American Journal of Psychiatry,^[3] Psychiatric Services,^[4] Transcultural Psychiatry,^[5] Psychiatric Times,^[6] The American Journal of Bioethics,^[7] Social History of Medicine,^[8] Medical Anthropology Quarterly,^[9] Journal of African American History,^[10] Journal of Black Psychology,^[11] Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine,^[12] and The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture.^[13]

References[edit]

^ Metzl, Jonathan (2010). The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-8592-9.
^ Wear, D. (2010). "The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease". JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association. 303 (19): 1984. doi:10.1001/jama.2010.629.
^ Luhrmann, T. M. (2010). "The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease". American Journal of Psychiatry. 167 (4): 479–480. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2009.09101398.
^ Bell, Carl (1 August 2011). "The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease". Psychiatric Services. 62 (8): 979–980. doi:10.1176/appi.ps.62.8.979-a.
^ McKenzie, Kwame (July–September 2012). "Jonathan M. Metzl, The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease". Transcultural Psychiatry. 49 (3–4): 640–642. doi:10.1177/1363461512448783. S2CID 147556815.
^ Fernando, Suman (21 October 2010). "Review – The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease". Psychiatric Times.
^ Aultman, Julie (2010). "Review of Jonathan Metzl, The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease". The American Journal of Bioethics. 10 (11): 37–38. doi:10.1080/15265161.2010.520600. S2CID 144756226.
^ Wald, P. (2011). "Jonathan M. Metzl, the Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease". Social History of Medicine. 24: 194–195. doi:10.1093/shm/hkr027.
^ Freidenberg, Judith (June 2012). "The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease by Jonathan Metzl". Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 26 (2): 309–310. doi:10.1111/j.1548-1387.2012.01214.x.
^ Johnson, Frank (Fall 2012). "The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease by Jonathan M. Metzl". Journal of African American History. 97 (4): 499–501. doi:10.5323/jafriamerhist.97.4.0499.
^ Sherry, Alissa (August 2011). "Book Review: Metzl, J. M. (2010). The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease". Journal of Black Psychology. 37 (3): 381–383. doi:10.1177/0095798411407066. S2CID 145586438.
^ Schneider, B. (2011). "Book review: J.M. Metzl, the Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease, Beacon Press: Boston, MA, 2010; 246 pp". Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine. 15 (2): 213–214. doi:10.1177/13634593110150020605. S2CID 72580690.
^ Staub, Michael (2010). "The protest psychosis: how schizophrenia became a black disease". The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture. 3 (2): 253–255. doi:10.1080/17541328.2010.525948. S2CID 143107138.

External links[edit]

The Protest Psychosis video recording of talk by Metzl aired on January 13, 2010, by CSPAN-2's Book TV (90 minutes)
Interview with Metzl about the book by Christopher J. Lane on Psychology Today
Interview with Metzl on WNYC radio, February 12, 2010
How the Black man became schizophrenic blog post on the book by Karen Franklin on Psychology Today
Schizophrenia as Political Weapon. The disease turned from a benign illness to a violent disease in the 1960s, just as black men joined protests against racism. article and interview with Metzl in The Root by Felicia Pride
The protest psychosis – Essay by Metzl from June 9, 2010, in Michigan Today, summarizing the book's ideas.
Audio interview with Metzl on "New Books in African American Studies" (44 minutes)
Metzl discusses his book on ABC Radio National's All In The Mind program (30 minutes)

[Metzl-1] Metzl, Jonathan (2010). The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease. Beacon Press. ISBN 978-0-8070-8592-9.

[2] Wear, D. (2010). "The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease". JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association. 303 (19): 1984. doi:10.1001/jama.2010.629.

[3] Luhrmann, T. M. (2010). "The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease". American Journal of Psychiatry. 167 (4): 479–480. doi:10.1176/appi.ajp.2009.09101398.

[4] Bell, Carl (1 August 2011). "The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease". Psychiatric Services. 62 (8): 979–980. doi:10.1176/appi.ps.62.8.979-a.

[5] McKenzie, Kwame (July–September 2012). "Jonathan M. Metzl, The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease". Transcultural Psychiatry. 49 (3–4): 640–642. doi:10.1177/1363461512448783. S2CID 147556815.

[6] Fernando, Suman (21 October 2010). "Review – The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease". Psychiatric Times.

[7] Aultman, Julie (2010). "Review of Jonathan Metzl, The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease". The American Journal of Bioethics. 10 (11): 37–38. doi:10.1080/15265161.2010.520600. S2CID 144756226.

[8] Wald, P. (2011). "Jonathan M. Metzl, the Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease". Social History of Medicine. 24: 194–195. doi:10.1093/shm/hkr027.

[9] Freidenberg, Judith (June 2012). "The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease by Jonathan Metzl". Medical Anthropology Quarterly. 26 (2): 309–310. doi:10.1111/j.1548-1387.2012.01214.x.

[10] Johnson, Frank (Fall 2012). "The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease by Jonathan M. Metzl". Journal of African American History. 97 (4): 499–501. doi:10.5323/jafriamerhist.97.4.0499.

[11] Sherry, Alissa (August 2011). "Book Review: Metzl, J. M. (2010). The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease". Journal of Black Psychology. 37 (3): 381–383. doi:10.1177/0095798411407066. S2CID 145586438.

[12] Schneider, B. (2011). "Book review: J.M. Metzl, the Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease, Beacon Press: Boston, MA, 2010; 246 pp". Health: An Interdisciplinary Journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine. 15 (2): 213–214. doi:10.1177/13634593110150020605. S2CID 72580690.

[13] Staub, Michael (2010). "The protest psychosis: how schizophrenia became a black disease". The Sixties: A Journal of History, Politics and Culture. 3 (2): 253–255. doi:10.1080/17541328.2010.525948. S2CID 143107138.

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