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Unpacking the history of racism in psychiatry—and how the field can do better, by thinkpsychiatry

In the 1800s and 1900s, the criminalization of Blackness meant that the system was set up to justify the fact that Black patients were rarely provided with helpful treatments and were more likely to beI am white, and I was raised in Massachusetts by liberal parents. When I started medical school in the southeast, my parents exhorted me to vote out the racist individuals representing my new state and to set things right.

I absorbed lessons from classes in which I learned about presumed biological race-based differences in response to blood-pressure treatments. I developed my clinical history-taking skills with a

 

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