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 Image
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… — 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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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 Image
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