Under the strain of color
Subtitle: Harlem's Lafargue Clinic and the promise of an antiracist psychiatry
By: Gabriel N. Mendes
Series: Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry; Cornell studies in the history of psychiatry
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 196
ISBN-13: 9780801453502
Copyright date: 2015
Subjects: Mental health; Community psychiatry; History; Mental Health Services; Social psychiatry; Psychiatry; Lafargue Clinic (New York, N.Y.); Mental health services; African Americans; History, 20th Century
Description: Includes primary source material.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction : "a deeper silence"; title: 1. "This burden of consciousness" : Richard Wright and the psychology of race relations, 1927-1947; title: 2. "Intangible difficulties" : Dr. Fredric Wertham and the politics of psychiatry in the interwar years; title: 3. "Between the sewer and the church" : the emergence of the Lafargue Mental Hygiene Clinic; title: 4. Children and the violence of racism : the Lafargue Clinic, comic books, and the case against school segregation; title: Epilogue : "an experiment in the social basis of psychotherapy."