Jonathan Michel Metzl (born December 12, 1964) is an American psychiatrist and author. He is the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University, where he is also Director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society. He is the author of multiple books, including ''

The Protest Psychosis ''The Protest Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease'' is a 2010 book by the psychiatrist Jonathan Metzl (who also has a Ph.D. in American studies), and published by Beacon Press, covering the history of the 1960s Ionia State Hospit ...

'', ''Prozac on the Couch'', ''Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality'', and '' Dying of Whiteness''.

Early life and education

Metzl was born and raised in

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, Missouri to a Jewish family. His father was a pediatrician and his mother was a psychoanalyst. He has three brothers, two of whom are doctors. He received two bachelor's degrees, one in biology and one in

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, from the University of Missouri, Kansas City, where he went on to earn his M.D. He then completed his residency in psychiatry at

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, where he also earned a master's degree in poetry. In 2001, while working as a psychiatrist, he earned a Ph.D. in American studies from the University of Michigan.

Academic career

Metzl joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1998 as director of the Rackham Interdisciplinary Institute. He became an assistant professor in the Department of Psychiatry and Women's Studies Program there in 2001 and was named Director of their Program in Culture, Health, and Medicine in 2003. In 2006, he was awarded a

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. In 2011, he became the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry and director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society at Vanderbilt University.

Views

Metzl has written of white identity in the United States being expressed through a vector of "shared resentments" rather than unifying values. He sees whiteness and white identity as increasingly prominent in

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