The protest psychosis

About “The protest psychosis”

The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease is a 2010 book by psychiatrist Jonathan Metzl, published by Beacon Press. It examines the history of the Ionia State Hospital in Ionia, Michigan, which was one of America's largest and most notorious state psychiatric institutions before deinstitutionalization. The facility was converted into the Ionia Correctional Facility in 1986. The book explores how the hospital's practices and the broader societal context of the 1960s contributed to the racialization of schizophrenia. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)