Diagnosing the Black body: Race, culture and power in schizophrenia diagnosis

Candice Valenzuela, MA, MFTI, YT-200

Candice Valenzuela, MA, MFTI, YT-200

California Institute of Integral Studies

Introduction

A man who has a language consequently possesses the world expressed and implied by that language. What we are getting at becomes plain: Mastery of language affords remarkable power. Paul Valery knew this, for he called language “the god gone astray in the flesh.” (Bl…