racism
Silent Cells: The Secret Drugging of Captive America
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Little discussed, there is another aspect to the issues surrounding psychotropic drugs. It concerns the use of such drugs, not for psychiatric reasons, but simply to keep more-or-less captive sections of society – e.g. prisoners and those in care homes,…
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Combatting Structural Racism and Classism in Psychiatry: An Interview with Helena Hansen
The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease
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The publishers describe this book as a “… powerful account of how cultural anxieties about race shaped American notions of mental illness.” They continue: “The civil rights era is largely remembered as a time of sit-ins, boycotts, and riots. But…
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