Kanye West to be used a s case study for mental illness by college professor

US rapper, Kanye West is set to feature as a case study for mental illness by Dr. Jeffrey McCune, a college professor at St. Louis's Washington University, who will be using the singer's public breakdowns in the study.
Kanye West was reportedly admitted to a hospital in Los Angeles in November 2016 as a result of stress which made him to cancel the remaining dates of his US tour. At the time several reports had it that he was dealing with depression and struggling with extreme paranoia.
 
Diagnosis will be McCune's third and final lecture on Kanye, and will reportedly be about how he's simultaneously both a "genius" and "crazy."
According to Hypebeast, McCune will argue that we label Kanye as crazy because he acts outside the box we try to keep him in.

"[U]ltimately what I’m getting at in this lecture is not just about Kanye, it’s also about the larger notion of crazy and how we utilize it," the prof said.

He says he plans to argue how race intensifies the label "crazy" as a mental illness versus the usage of "crazy" to refer to a type of innovator.
McCune further explained his overall goal:

"I want to give people permission to be enraged. Give people permission to be upset, to be angry, to be frustrated," he said.

"Give people permission to have moments where they break. Give people permission to have moments where they experience depression. I want to give them permission to have those moments without being characterized as being some type of deviant figure in the community. I don’t want to take away that experience and call it crazy. It’s reasonable. And it must be addressed with love, compassion, care, generosity."

The lecture which is free and open to all will hold in the St. Louis area, on Wednesday April 12.