Jonathan Michel Metzl Quotes

• 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

  Orden, Gente, Política

  Source: bigthink.com

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• The issue of guns, as president [Barack] Obama mentioned, which is particularly assailant in Colorado, a very complicated gun story, and I think a political climate that urges people to take issues into their own hands.

  Jonathan Michel Metzl

  Gun, Thinking, Hands

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• 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 be one prevalent example right now, different kind of cultures surrounding it. If you don't understand the cultural meaning of an illness like that you're going to miss the boat even if you're a great scientist.

  Jonathan Michel Metzl

  Mistake, Cancer, Thinking

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• 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

  Race, Class, Example

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• Creo que parte de la razón por la que la esquizofrenia se vinculó a las protestas por los derechos civiles en los años 60 fue porque la sociedad dominante codificaba las amenazas contra el buen funcionamiento del Estado como locura y las trataba como tales, y así, a medida que eso sucede, se ve la evolución de un proceso en el que las personas con esquizofrenia son cada vez más temidas y nuestros hospitales, en particular el tipo de hospital que analizo en el libro, se parecen cada vez más a prisiones, hasta el punto de que muchos de ellos, incluido el que comento, se convierten realmente en prisiones.

  Jonathan Michel Metzl

  Correr, Libro, Pensar

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 29, 2010.

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• 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 off looking both at biology and at social context and really trying to think of the relationship between these and I think doctors and patients are better off that way.

  Jonathan Michel Metzl

  Real, Thinking, Doctors

  Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com. January 29, 2010.

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• 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

  Believe, Thinking, Diagnosis

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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• 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 support them, make it much harder for law enforcement to do their jobs.

  Jonathan Michel Metzl

  Jobs, Thinking, Law

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• 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 what`s been happening.

  Jonathan Michel Metzl

  Gun, Thinking, New Normal

  Source: www.msnbc.com

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• There are really exciting things happening in genetic and neurobiology right now, and really looking at the ways in which different not just illnesses, but social conditions and social pressures can actually lead to actual brain changes.

  Jonathan Michel Metzl

  Brain, Social Pressure, Different

  Big Think Interview, bigthink.com.

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