love is stronger than pride

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“Growing numbers of psychiatrists asserted that schizophrenia was a condition that afflicted “Negro men,” and that black forms of the illness were more hostile and aggressive than were white ones. At the time, it likely appeared to many Americans that an epidemic of schizophrenia was spreading among angry black men. In fact, psychiatry’s frame shift produced new categories of schizophrenic illness. Researchers used DSM II criteria to uncover “hostile” aspects of black schizophrenia, such as paranoia, delusions, or rage, and to draw connections between schizophrenia and civil rights demonstrations. A number of studies conflated black schizophrenia with Black Power in order to illustrate evolving understandings of the illness as hostile or violent, using long-standing stereotypes of manic, crazy black men to demonstrate “new” forms of schizophrenic illness. In 1968, psychiatrists Walter Bromberg and Frank Simon described schizophrenia as a “Protest Psychosis,” whereby black men developed “hostile and aggressive feelings” and “delusional anti-whiteness” after listening to the words of Malcolm X, joining the Black Muslims, or aligning with groups that preached militant resistance to white society. In that same year, psychiatric researchers Pierce and West argued that black men developed “delusions, grandiosity, magical thinking, and… dangerous aggressive feelings” when they participated in civil rights sit-ins.”

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