For my digital project, I wanted to examine what happened to historic asylums following deinstitutionalization when mental health care overall became less focused on the environment of the psychiatric hospital and there was a reduced need for them. I have always found abandoned buildings interesting and watched a lot of videos of people exploring psychiatric … Continue reading “Digital Project”
Monthly Archives: November 2023
11/1
I believe this picture perfectly exemplifies what we have discussed this week. This is because while there were mental disorders that African America males were struggling with, the doctors would just diagnose them with schizophrenia. They chose to ignore other mental disorders even when these patients would show the exact same symptoms as a white …
1 November 2023
I saw this meme and laughed. I thought this was pretty funny and related to our topic this week on schizophrenia.
11/1/2023
A discussion between Black psychiatrist about the effects of schizophrenia in the Black community.
Week 10 Blog Post
After reading the book for this week, I got curious and wanted to know More about the Ionia State Hospital. So I found this pretty interesting site that provides pictures as well as oral histories as part of a project but together about Ionia and othe…
Week Ten Resource Blog Post
I was curious while reading The Protest Psychosis about what Ionia looked like, and when I tried to find out, I found this collection of images gathered as part of a project to collect oral histories of various psychiatric hospitals in Michigan. Most were of the buildings on campus, but there were also quite a … Continue reading “Week Ten Resource Blog Post”
Metzl on The Protest Psychosis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1BGpoQgkDaA&ab_channel=UWPBSCI
Metzl speaks on his book.
Week 10 Post
YouTube video about how Schizophrenia became a “Black Disease”.
This video provides an excellent summary from Metzl himself about how schizophrenia became increasingly identified within minority populations (specifically African-America…
