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 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

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

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

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

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

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'm a practicing psychiatrist and I think that I really believe in the advances of psychiatry. Our diagnoses are more precise.

- 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…

- Jonathan Michel Metzl