Tuesday, August 09, 2016
is racism a psychopathology?
emory | In the third and final CMBC lunch talk of the 2013 fall semester, Dr.
Sander Gilman (Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts, Emory) treated
participants to an engaging presentation on the interconnected history
of racism and mental illness in Europe and America during the nineteenth
and twentieth centuries. The topic of the talk grew out of a
CMBC-sponsored undergraduate course and graduate seminar offered by Dr.
Gilman last fall, titled “Race, Brain, and Psychoanalysis.”
Gilman opened by citing a 2012 study conducted by an
interdisciplinary team of scientists at Oxford. Based on clinical
experiments, they reported that white subjects who were given doses of
the beta-blocker drug Propranolol showed reduced indicators of implicit
racial bias. The authors of the paper wrote that their research “raises
the tantalizing possibility that our unconscious racial attitudes could
be modulated using drugs.” Time Magazine soon thereafter ran a headline
story with the title “Is Racism Becoming a Mental Illness?” Dismissing
these claims as unscientific, Gilman instead posed a different set of
questions: at what point, historically, does racism come to be
classified as a form of mental illness? Why? And what are the
implications of such a “diagnosis”?
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