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 Copy Share Image
There are really exciting things happening in genetic and neurobiology right now, and really looking at the ways in which different not just illnesses,… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share
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… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share
I think that one of the other lessons about what happened here is that open carry laws, even though many police, sheriff departments in… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Depression as one example is an illness that has a chemical basis, but also is deeply embedded in cultural norms about gender, social class,… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share
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.… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share
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 Copy Share
The issue of guns, as president [Barack] Obama mentioned, which is particularly assailant in Colorado, a very complicated gun story, and I think a… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share
I think part of why schizophrenia got linked to civil rights protest in the '60s was because mainstream society was coding threats against the… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share
Mental illness is a real thing. It has real material consequences for people who suffer from it and at the time even the most… — Jonathan Michel Metzl Copy Share
