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Record Nr.

UNINA9910822810903321

Autore

Metzl Jonathan <1964->

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : Beacon Press, 2010, c2009

ISBN

0-8070-8593-6

Descrizione fisica

xxi, 246 p

Disciplina

362.196/8980089960973

Soggetti

African Americans - Mental health

Schizophrenia

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.