{"id":2050,"date":"2025-12-12T14:00:00","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/12\/black-religion-in-the-madhouse-examines-psychiatry-and-race-post-civil-war\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T14:00:00","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T14:00:00","slug":"black-religion-in-the-madhouse-examines-psychiatry-and-race-post-civil-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/2025\/12\/12\/black-religion-in-the-madhouse-examines-psychiatry-and-race-post-civil-war\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Black Religion in the Madhouse\u2019 examines psychiatry and race post-Civil War"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the aftermath of slavery, white psychiatrists diagnosed Black people with \u201creligious excitement\u201d and claimed they were unfit for freedom.\u200bIn the aftermath of slavery, white psychiatrists diagnosed Black people with \u201creligious excitement\u201d and claimed they were unfit for freedom.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencenews.org\/article\/racism-psychiatry-black-religion-book\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the aftermath of slavery, white psychiatrists diagnosed Black people with \u201creligious excitement\u201d and claimed they were unfit for freedom.\u200bIn the aftermath of slavery, white psychiatrists diagnosed Black people with \u201creligious excitement\u201d and claimed they were unfit for freedom.\u00a0Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2051,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2050","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-health-medicine"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2050"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2050\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2051"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2050"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2050"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/masspectrum.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2050"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}