Author: Jonathan Metzl
Publisher: Beacon Press (MA)
ISBN: 9780807085929
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 246
Book Description
A powerful account of how cultural anxieties about race shaped American notions of mental illness The Protest Psychosisunearths how associations between schizophrenia and blackness emerged during the U.S. civil rights era, and provides a cautionary tale of how anxieties about race continue to impact doctor-patient interactions. From the Trade Paperback edition.