Mental illness is a real thing. It has real material consequences for people who suffer from it and at the time even the most biological finding reflects social context in very important ways, and so I think psychiatry is better off looking both at biology and at social context and really trying to think of the relationship between these and I think doctors and patients are better off that way.
I think President [Barack] Obama is exactly right, we need to combat [gun shoots] because this really can become the new normal, but that`s really wh… - Jonathan Michel Metzl
I think President [Barack] Obama is exactly right, we need to combat [gun shoots] because this really can become the new normal, but that`s really wh…
- Jonathan Michel Metzl
I think part of why schizophrenia got linked to civil rights protest in the '60s was because mainstream society was coding threats against the smooth… - Jonathan Michel Metzl
I think part of why schizophrenia got linked to civil rights protest in the '60s was because mainstream society was coding threats against the smooth…
I think that we're making a mistake if we don't see that there is a cultural basis to many illnesses, not just psychiatric ones. Breast cancer would … - Jonathan Michel Metzl
I think that we're making a mistake if we don't see that there is a cultural basis to many illnesses, not just psychiatric ones. Breast cancer would …
Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender, social class, race. - Jonathan Michel Metzl
Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender, social class, race.
Mental illness is a real thing. It has real material consequences for people who suffer from it and at the time even the most biological finding refl… - Jonathan Michel Metzl
Mental illness is a real thing. It has real material consequences for people who suffer from it and at the time even the most biological finding refl…
Particularly with schizophrenia you see a lot of concern that these people could escape and kill people, or they could threaten our political order. - Jonathan Michel Metzl
Particularly with schizophrenia you see a lot of concern that these people could escape and kill people, or they could threaten our political order.
The issue of guns, as president [Barack] Obama mentioned, which is particularly assailant in Colorado, a very complicated gun story, and I think a po… - Jonathan Michel Metzl
The issue of guns, as president [Barack] Obama mentioned, which is particularly assailant in Colorado, a very complicated gun story, and I think a po…
I think that one of the other lessons about what happened here is that open carry laws, even though many police, sheriff departments in Colorado supp… - Jonathan Michel Metzl
I think that one of the other lessons about what happened here is that open carry laws, even though many police, sheriff departments in Colorado supp…
There are really exciting things happening in genetic and neurobiology right now, and really looking at the ways in which different not just illnesse… - Jonathan Michel Metzl
There are really exciting things happening in genetic and neurobiology right now, and really looking at the ways in which different not just illnesse…
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