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]
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| Born | Jonathan Michel Metzl December 12, 1964 |
| Nationality | American |
| Education | University of Missouri, Kansas City Stanford University University of Michigan |
| Awards | Guggenheim Fellowship (2006) |
| Scientific career | |
| Fields | American studies Psychiatry Sociology |
| Institutions | Vanderbilt University |
| Thesis | The Freud of Prozac: Prescribing Gender in the Era of Wonder Drugs (2001) |
| Doctoral advisor | Domna C. Stanton |
| Website | www |
Early life and education
Metzl was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri to a Jewish family.[4] His father was a pediatrician and his mother was a psychoanalyst. He has three brothers, two of whom are doctors.[5][6] 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.[7]
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.[7] In 2006, he was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship.[8] 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.[7][9]
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.[10]
References
- "Metzl, Jonathan, 1964-". Library of Congress Name Authority File. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
- "Jonathan M. Metzl". Medicine, Health and Society. Vanderbilt University. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
- "JMetzl Books – Jonathan M. Metzl". Retrieved 2020-01-04.
- "Writer Jonathan Metzl on the moment neo-Nazis invaded his discussion of "whiteness"". Salon. Retrieved 2020-08-17.
- "Bio". Faculty History Project. University of Michigan. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
- Kilgore-Hill, Melanie (2018-01-15). "The Crossroads of People & Medicine". Nashville Medical News. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
- "Jonathan M. Metzl CV". Retrieved 2020-01-04.
- "Jonathan M. Metzl". John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
- Patterson, Jim (2011-10-03). "Jonathan Metzl". Vanderbilt University. Retrieved 2020-01-04.
- Jonathan Metzl (April 29, 2019). "It's time to talk about being white in America". The Washington Post. Archived from the original on 2019-05-01.
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.