Publications

Books
Lay My Burden Down:
Unraveling Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis Among African-Americans
by Alvin F. Poussaint and Amy Alexander
Beacon, Boston, 2000
$23.00 hardcover. Available at bookstores everywhere, online and at 800.225.3362

Raising Black Children
by James P. Comer and Alvin F. Poussaint
Plume, New York, 1992

Articles
"Clinical Manifestations and Diagnosis of Amyloid Polyneuropathy"
by T. L. Munsat and A. F. Poussaint
(Neurology, Minneapolis, 1962; 12(6):413-422)

"A Controlled Study of Imipramine (Tofranil) in the Treatment of Childhood Enuresis"
by A. F. Poussaint and K. S. Ditman
(J Pediatr, 1965; 67(6):283-290)

"The Effect of the Physician's Smoking on the Treatment of Smokers"
by A. F. Poussaint, S. H. Bergman, and E. Lichtenstein
(Diseases of the Nervous System, 1966; 27:539-543.)

The Stresses of the White Female Worker in the Civil Rights Movement in the South"
By A. F. Poussaint
(Am J Psychiatry, 1966; 123(4):401-407)

"A Negro Psychiatrist Explains the Negro Psyche"
by A. F. Poussaint
(The New York Times Sunday Magazine, August 20, 1967:52+)

"Black Power: A Failure for Integration within the Civil Rights Movement"
A. F. Poussaint and J. Ladner
(Arch Gen Psychiatry, 1968; 18(4):385-391)

"The Black Administrator in the White University"
A. F. Poussaint
(Black Scholar, September 1974:8-14)

"Black Suicide"
by A. F. Poussaint
(Textbook of Black-Related Diseases, ed. R. A. Williams, New York: McGraw-Hill, 1975)

"Interracial Relations and Prejudice"
(Comprehensive Textbook of Psychiatry/III, third edition, eds. H. I. Kaplan, A. M. Freedman and B. J. Sadock, Baltimore: Williams & Wilkins, 1980:3155-3161)

"Black on Black Homicide: A Psychological-Political Perspective"
by A. F. Poussaint
(International J Victimology, 1983; 8(3,4):161-169)

An Honest Look at Blacks Gays and Lesbians"
By A. F. Poussaint
(Ebony, September 1990:124-131)

"Black Children: Coping in a Racist Society"
by A. F. Poussaint
(Voices of Multicultural America: Notable Speeches Delivered by African, Asian, Hispanic and Native Americans, 1790-1995, ed. Deborah Gillan Straub, Detroit: Gale Research, 1996)

"Psychology and Psychiatry"
By A. F. Poussaint
(Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, vol. 4, eds. Deborah Gillan Straub, J. Salzman, D. L. Smith, C. West New York: MacMillan Library Reference USA, 1996)

"Sexuality"
By A. F. Poussaint
(eds. J. Salzman, D. L. Smith, C. West,
Encyclopedia of African-American Culture and History, vol. 5, New York: MacMillan Library Reference USA, 1996)

"Prostate Cancer: Male Killer Hits Famous & Not-So-Famous"
by A. F. Poussaint
(Ebony, April 1997, 116-120+)

"Racial Issues in Medicine: A Psychosocial Perspective"
By A. F. Possaint
(Humane Medicine: A New Paradigm in Medical Education and Health Care Delivery, vol. II, ed. R. A. Williams, Philadelphia: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins Healthcare, 2001; 33-40)

"Is Extreme Racism a Mental Illness? Point-Counterpoint"
by A. F. Poussaint
(Western Journal of Medicine, 2002; 176: 4)