The Protest Psychosis: Race, Stigma, and the Diagnosis of Schizophrenia

Jonathan M. Metzl is the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry, and Director of the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University. He is the author of What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms (forthcoming 2024), Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland (2019), The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease (2010), and Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs (2003).