The protest psychosis
Subtitle: how schizophrenia became a black disease
By: Jonathan M. Metzl.
Publisher: Beacon Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780807085929
Subjects: African Americans -- Mental health -- Case studies; Schizophrenia -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface: the protest psychosis; title: Homicidal; title: Ionia; title: "She tells very little about her behavior yet shows a lot"; title: Loosening associations; title: Like a family (oral history transcription excerpt); title: The other direction; title: Categories; title: Octavius Greene had no exit interview; title: The persistence of memory (oral history transcription excerpt); title: Too close for comfort; title: "His actions are determined largely by his emotions"; title: Revisionist mystery; title: A racialized disease; title: A metaphor for race; title: Turned loose (oral history transcription excerpt); title: Deinstitutionalization; title: "Raised in a slum ghetto"; title: Power, knowledge, and diagnostic revision; title: Return of the repressed; title: Rashamon; title: Something else instead; title: Locked away; title: Diversity; title: Inside; title: Remnants; title: Controllin the planet; title: Conclusion.