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I believe this picture perfectly exemplifies what we have discussed this week. This is because while there were mental disorders that African America males were struggling with, the doctors would just diagnose them with schizophrenia. They chose to ignore other mental disorders even when these patients would show the exact same symptoms as a white patients. They chose to ignore that evidence not specifically Ionia but the psychiatric field as a whole. Although this could be attributed to American society and its racist views. Regardless, misdiagnosing patients with schizophrenia. was extremely detrimental to the individuals,  as well as for the world of psychology. 

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