A Virginia Mental Institution for Black Patients, Opened After the Civil War, Yields Trove of Disturbing Records
Source: The Washington Post
Resource Type: Website or Webpage Article
Focus Population: BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, and People of Color), Peers/Clients/Consumers, People experiencing Homelessness, People in Recovery from Substance Use, People with Criminal or Juvenile Justice System Involvement
Topics: Behavioral Health Services, Best Practices, Community Defined or Evidence Based Practices
A painful and explicit exploration into psychiatric abuse and violent and scientific racism faced by Black psychiatric patients post-Civil War to the1960s in the archives of a Virginia mental institution. This article explores misdiagnosis and over diagnosis of serious mental illness like schizophrenia because of their civil rights belief, religious experiences, and/or a result of racialized oppression.