Diagnostic Voices of Community: ‘How Mental Illness Became a Crime’
Jonathan Metzl, Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Michigan Department of Women’s Studies and author of the book The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease and Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs describes how “in the racially charged 1960s, dissent was redefined as insanity, and insanity as criminal behavior. Countless patients are still living with the consequences.”
