11 Facts About Jonathan Metzl

Jonathan Michel Metzl was born on December 12,1964 and is an American psychiatrist and author.

Jonathan Metzl is the Frederick B Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry at Vanderbilt University, where he is Director of the Center for Medicine, Health, and Society.

Jonathan Metzl is the author of several other books, including The Protest Psychosis, Prozac on the Couch, Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality, and Dying of Whiteness.

Jonathan Metzl was born and raised in Kansas City, Missouri to a Jewish family.

Jonathan Metzl's father was a pediatrician and his mother was a psychoanalyst.

Jonathan Metzl has three brothers, Jordan, Jamie and Joshua, two of whom are doctors.

Jonathan Metzl then completed his residency in psychiatry at Stanford University, where he earned a master's degree in poetry.

Jonathan Metzl joined the faculty of the University of Michigan in 1998 as director of the Rackham Interdisciplinary Institute.

Jonathan Metzl 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.

Jonathan Metzl has written of white identity in the United States being expressed through a vector of "shared resentments" rather than unifying values.

Jonathan Metzl sees whiteness and white identity as increasingly prominent in Donald Trump's presidency.