The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease

In The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease, psychiatrist and cultural critic Jonathan Metzl shows how many Black protesters were diagnosed with schizophrenia at the Ionia State Hospital for the Criminally Insane in Ionia, Michigan, during the civil-rights movement in the 1960s and 1970s. The book raises ethical questions about how racial bias (among other biases) is embedded in supposedly neutral psychiatric diagnostic criteria and the harms that result.

Michael Redinger, a clinical psychiatrist who co-chairs the Department of Medical Ethics, Humanities, and Law at WMU Homer Stryker M.D. School of Medicine, will lead discussions.

The first 10 sign-ups receive a free book. Students who attend all scheduled meetings of their book club earn Signature credit.

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