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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 husband’s
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 we’ve come since Carter’s days on
the campaign trail and how far we have yet to go.
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