A new book on the history of schizophrenia

Jonathan M. Metzl, author of the well-known Prozac on the Couch, publishes a new book  of how schizophrenia became the diagnostic term overwhelmingly applied to African-American men in the United States during the 1960s and 1970s.  For more, click here.

Jonathan M. Metzl, The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease (Boston: Beacon Press, 2010).

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