Tag: black health
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Introducing Alafia Project: A Black Muslim Mental Health Project
Black mental health through history The book ‘The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease’ published in 2010 is written by psychiatrist Jonathan Metzl and explores from the onset of the civil rights era the conflation of black men and severe psychiatric illness- namely schizophrenia. To frame psychiatric nomenclature, diagnosis and treatment as an…