stigma. The stigma not only stems from the community we serve but also from our own colleagues.
Dr. Carl Bell forged past these long-standing stigmas and brought insight, wisdom, dedication, and a passion for mental health care treatment into the room of every patient he treated. He practiced medicine and he conducted his expansive research knowing that we cannot confine individuals to the simplicity of diagnostic manuals.
He knew that in order to advance and evolve the field of Psychiatry, doctors have to acknowledge and research the cultural impacts of poverty. Dr. Bell understood the impacts of social inequality on the mental health of African-Americans.
During his career as an adult psychiatrist in Chicago he wrote countless articles about community psychiatry. His collective research was published in one of his infamous works, The Sanity of Survival. In his book he wrote “It has always been my great concern that as African-Americans, we don’t know very much about ourselves because we don’t spend adequate time looking at ourselves. Instead, we’re constantly defined by others…I think this is a tragedy. We need to start taking a good, long look at where we are. “
His research included understanding the importance of a broader scope of mental health care treatment in