Katie Charlwood
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 21 Jul
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You couldn't walk into a hospital and be formally diagnosed with protest psychosis.
Instead,
The term refers to a historical phenomenon in which psychiatrists, institutions, and the media increasingly associated schizophrenia with black political activism, anger, and resistance during the civil rights era.
And the following year, schizophrenia diagnosis in angry black men skyrocketed.
This is a very specific type of schizophrenia, right?
Suddenly discovered...
paranoid schizophrenia, sufferers of which were typified as having delusional anti-whiteness, which is, frankly, laughable considering, you know, the lynching and the bombings and the segregation and the arson and all of the medical experimentation.
Like,
How is that delusional anti-whiteness?
Like, pal, that is delusional for black men not to be anti-white after being through that.
And now, I know you might be thinking, were these psychiatrists racist?
Yes!
Yes, they were, right?
Like, they reflected the social tensions of 1960s America.
And so this influenced this, this decision.
It was enhanced by their inherent biases.
Like this wasn't a cold clinical decision.
The new diagnosis procedures were heavily intertwined with the cultural values of the day.
Sorry, the cultural values of white doctors.
leading them to create what was essentially a modern version of drapedomania, an illness that was concocted to explain and rationalise why the enslaved would so often flee their mastles.
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