Jonathan Michel Metzl Quotes

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.

Particularly with schizophrenia you see a lot of concern that these people could escape and kill people, or they could threaten our political order.

I'm a practicing psychiatrist and I think that I really believe in the advances of psychiatry. Our diagnoses are more precise.

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.