The Protest Psychosis & the Future of Equity & Diversity Efforts in American Psychiatry

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ID9684633
AutoresJonathan M Metzl (0000-0002-0037-3953, autor correspondente)
Ano2023
Volume152
Fascículo4
Páginas92-110
Data de publicação2023-11-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoDaedalus (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0011-5266 • E-ISSN: 1548-6192
EditoraMIT Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1162/daed_a_02033
OpenAlexW4388878796
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas2
Referências citadas11

This essay chronicles the history of medical associations between schizophrenia and Blackness that emerged during the tumultuous decades of the 1960s and 1970s, when American psychiatrists overdiagnosed schizophrenia in Black men in ways that undermined brain science of the era. I provide data to show how racially disparate diagnostic outcomes resulted not solely from the attitudes or biases of clinicians, but from a series of larger political and social determinants, most notably changing frameworks surrounding mental illness and political protest. I conclude by highlighting how training clinicians to examine their own cultural biases also needs to include training in how structures and institutions produce symptoms and diseases, and how we can only build better structures to support health if we can individually and then communally imagine them

Cultural diversity · Diversity (politics · Equity (law · History of psychiatry · Mental health · Mental illness · Political science · Politics · Psychiatry · Psychosis · Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming · Sociology · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · Law · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Psychology