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The protest psychosis : how schizophrenia became a Black disease / Jonathan M. Metzl.

by Metzl, Jonathan, 1964-

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Boston : Beacon Press, c2009.

African Americans -- Mental health -- Case studies.

Schizophrenia -- United States -- Case studies.

Cultural psychiatry -- United States -- Case studies.

9780807085929 (alk. paper)

0807085928 (alk. paper)

xxi, 246 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Preface: the protest psychosis -- Homicidal -- Ionia -- She tells very little about her behavior yet shows a lot -- Loosening associations -- Like a family -- The other direction -- Categories -- Octavius Greene had no exit interview -- The persistence of memory -- Too close for comfort -- His actions are determined largely by his emotions -- Revisionist mystery -- A racialized disease -- A metaphor for race -- Turned loose -- Deinstitutionalization -- Raised in a slum ghetto -- Power, knowledge, and diagnostic revision -- Return of the repressed -- Rashamon -- Something else instead -- Locked away -- Diversity -- Inside -- Remnants -- Controllin' the planet -- Conclusion.

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