Jonathan Metzl

Jonathan Michel Metzl (born December 12, 1964)[1] 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.[2] He is the author of multiple books, including The Protest Psychosis, Prozac on the Couch, Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality, and Dying of Whiteness.[3]

Jonathan Metzl
Born
Jonathan Michel Metzl

(1964-12-12) December 12, 1964
Kansas City, Missouri
NationalityAmerican
EducationUniversity of Missouri, Kansas City
Stanford University
University of Michigan
AwardsGuggenheim Fellowship (2006)
Scientific career
FieldsAmerican studies
Psychiatry
Sociology
InstitutionsVanderbilt University
ThesisThe Freud of Prozac: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs (2001)
Doctoral advisorDomna C. Stanton
Websitewww.jonathanmetzl.com

Early life and education

Metzl was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri, the son of a pediatrician father and a psychoanalyst mother. He has three brothers, two of whom are doctors.[4][5] He received two bachelor's degrees, one in biology and one in English literature, from the University of Missouri, Kansas City, where he went on to earn his M.D.. He then completed his residency in psychiatry at Stanford University, 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.[6]

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.[6] In 2006, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[7] 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.[6][8]

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 Donald Trump's presidency.[9]

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gollark: We could automate this with shell scripting, SO's API (I assume it has one) and `jq`!
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References
  1. "Metzl, Jonathan, 1964-". Library of Congress Name Authority File. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
  2. "Jonathan M. Metzl". Medicine, Health and Society. Vanderbilt University. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
  3. "JMetzl Books – Jonathan M. Metzl". Retrieved 2020-01-04.
  4. "Bio". Faculty History Project. University of Michigan. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
  5. Kilgore-Hill, Melanie (2018-01-15). "The Crossroads of People & Medicine". Nashville Medical News. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
  6. "Jonathan M. Metzl CV". Retrieved 2020-01-04.
  7. "Jonathan M. Metzl". John Simon Guggenheim Foundation. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
  8. Patterson, Jim (2011-10-03). "Jonathan Metzl". Vanderbilt University. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
  9. Jonathan Metzl (April 29, 2019). "It's time to talk about being white in America". The Washington Post. Yet with the rise of President Trump’s brand of resentment politics, American whiteness is increasingly hard to overlook. Trumpian rhetoric defines white identity not by shared values but by shared resentments. Whiteness, in this telling, is under siege.
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