And like the 1960s, after a series of machinations about seismic change, the response by these health systems focused centrally on changing clinicians’ atti- tudes, beliefs, and practices by “increasing awareness of inequities and discourse on the experience of oppression.” Psychologist Katherine Lingras and colleagues described a “reawakening to the importance of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion. [...] The framing of the illness encouraged psychiatrists to locate the illness in the types of patients who could afford therapy, or the kinds of pa- tients that hospitalists or researchers saw in America before desegregation on “whites-only” wards of psychiatric hospitals. [...] The title of the book came from a 1968 article in the Archives of General Psychiatry by two psychiatrists, Walter Bromberg and Franck Simon, who described a condition in which the rhetoric of the Black Power movement drove “Negro men” to insanity marked by violent delusions, anger, hostility, and projection (“The delusions are clearly paranoid projections of racial antagonism of the Negroes to the. [...] In the years since the publication of The Protest Psychosis, I have continued to track the shifting as- sociations between schizophrenia and race to help explain why overdiagnosis of Black men persisted even after psychiatry changed the language in the DSM, implemented cultural-competency training, and put in place a host of other in- terventions meant to assure that all persons were diagnosed and. [...] He is the author of What We’ve Become: Living and Dying in a Country of Arms (forthcoming 2024), Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Re- sentment Is Killing America’s Heartland (2019), The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Be- came a Black Disease (2010), and Prozac on the Couch: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs (2003).
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