Wednesday, 29 February 2012

Article: "How the Black man became schizophrenic"


http://forensicpsychologist.blogspot.com/2010/11/how-black-man-became-schizophrenic.html

It starts like this:


Psychiatry, the DSM, and the Black Power movement
Once upon a time, a strange thing happened at the Ionia State Hospital in Michigan: A diagnosis of schizophrenia exited the body of a white housewife, flew across the hospital, and landed on a young Black man from the housing projects of Detroit, burrowing into his body and stubbornly refusing to leave.

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