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Ending The Mental Health Crisis
Rodale Books
May 2010
On Sale: April 27, 2010
192 pages
ISBN: 1594868816
EAN: 9781594868818
Hardcover
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Non-Fiction
In Within Our Reach, former first lady Rosalynn Carter and coauthor Susan Golant render an insightful, unsparing assessment of the state of mental health. Mrs. Carter has been deeply invested in this issue since her husbandβs gubernatorial campaign when she saw firsthand the horrific, dehumanizing treatment of people with mental illnesses. Using stories from her 35 years of advocacy to springboard into a discussion of the larger issuesat hand, Carter crafts an intimate and powerful account of a subject previously shrouded in stigma and shadow, surveying the dimensions of an issue that has affected us all in one way or another. She describes a system that continues to fail those in need, even though recent scientific breakthroughs in the origins of and treatments for mental illnesses have potential to help most people lead more normal lives. Within Our Reach is a seminal, searing, and ultimately optimistic look at how far weβve come since Carterβs days on the campaign trail and how far we have yet to go.
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