Dr Jonathan Metzl Wikipedia, Wife, Age, Wedding, Book, Biography

Personal Details Summary
Name	Dr Jonathan Metzl
Age / How old / Birthday / Date of Birth / DOB	Born in 1964. As of 2025, he is around 61 years old.
Wedding & Marriage / Wife / Married / Spouse	Check the full bio for relationship details.
Children / No. of Kids	None
Ethnicity / Origin / Heritage / Race	White
Nationality	American
What Happened to Dr Jonathan Metzl?	Metzl is a professor of sociology and psychiatry at Vanderbilt University and director of the Center for Medicine.

Wiki Bio / Profile Background

Introduction :

Dr. Jonathan Metzl is an American clinical psychiatrist, university professor, gun violence expert and author.
Excelling both in medical sciences and humanities, Dr. Metzl came into the spotlight after publishing books with intriguing titles such as Prozac on the Couch, The Protest of Psychosis: How Schizophrenia Became a Black Disease and his latest one Dying of Whiteness.

Personal Life, Parents and Family Details :

Jonathan Michel Metzl was born in 1964 in Kansas City, Missouri. He was raised in a medically oriented family, as his father was a pediatrician and his mother was a psychoanalyst. He has three brothers, of whom two are doctors as well.
His family history is a tumultuous one. For example, Jonathan’s father, Dr. Kurt Metzl lived his early years in Austria, managed to escape to Switzerland, survived the war, and finally got a chance to move to the United States at the young age of 13.
Metzl aspired to become a psychiatrist because, as he jokingly claimed “It is a way of becoming a doctor without getting blood on your clothes”. He pursued his medical training in Missouri, then moved to California to complete it.
Currently, he lives in Nashville, Tennessee.

Education : Qualifications, High School & College Info

As the “humanities kid” in a family of doctors, Jonathan has always tried to combine his inclination towards medicine with his passion for the art of the written word. Hence he managed to be the first dual humanities major in his school.
He went to a six-year medical school at the University of Missouri, and then moved to California for his residency at Stanford University.
Jonathan earned B.A. degrees in Biology and English Literature, followed by a doctorate in American Studies at the University of Michigan.
During his medical residency, he opted for night school and earned a Master’s degree in Poetry.

Career, Income, Salary and Net Worth :

In 2003, Metzl released his first book “Prozac on the Couch,” which offers a broad cultural history of well-known depression treatments explaining how the Freudian gender categories influenced the understanding of this mental disorder and its linked medication.
Focusing his attention on a different psychiatric illness, Metzl wrote another highly acclaimed book, “The Protest of Psychosis,” in which he analyzed the way schizophrenia had started to be viewed as a disease of the black people, during the Civil Rights Movement in America.
Pursuing an academic career, Metzl became the Frederick B. Rentschler II Professor of Sociology and Psychiatry at the University of Vanderbilt and the Director of its Center for Medicine, Health and Society.
Jonathan’s expertise in gun violence led him to become the Research Director of The Safe Tennessee Project which is a volunteer-based organization, dealing with the epidemic of injuries and fatalities caused by gun use.
Upon finishing his latest publication Dying of Whiteness: How the Politics of Racial Resentment Is Killing America’s Heartland, Dr. Metzl is now on a book tour across America and Europe, promoting his recent work and delivering speeches on topics such as gun violence, gun politics, or mental illness and its role in mass shootings. The next event will take place on June 26, at Freud’s Museum in London.

Interesting Facts, Height and Trivia :

The Pulitzer Prize winning media company Star Tribune, has reviewed Jonathan Metzl’s latest book, describing it as “remarkable” and naming the doctor himself a “wordsmith.”
Dr Jonathan has made frequent appearances on MSNBC’s Melissa Harris-Perry Show, where he has talked about gun violence and tried to debunk myths that link it to mental illness or race.
One recent event involving Dr. Metzl made the headlines as he has been disrupted by a group of white nationalists while giving a speech in a Washington bookstore.
His latest work Dying of Whiteness deals with the effects of the politics of racial resentment and its effects on public health, hence generating violent reactions from right-wing supporters.

1 thought on “Dr Jonathan Metzl Wikipedia, Wife, Age, Wedding, Book, Biography”

John Galt Feb 2, 2024 at 1:46 pm


Metzler is just another predictable lying, intellectually dishonest supremacist participating in their “divide and conquer strategy”. Through their exponentially disproportionate influence in academia and control of the mainstream media, social media and, currently, they are puppet masters of the Obama/Biden Administration. Notwithstanding, the violence and destruction of property, including police stations, championed by social media as a political strategy during the 2020 election and during the Obama Administration to stoke racial division.