Received as a First Reads giveaway.Rosalynn Carter's most recent book about mental health care in the U.S. provides a useful, broad picture of the relative lack of progress the nation has made in some areas, notably by cutting corners on Kennedy's plan for deinstitutionalization. However, it also su...
Former First Lady Rosalynn Carter has long been a staunch advocate for the mentally ill. In "Within Our Reach," she details some of the reasons that improvements for their care recommended more than 30 years ago still have not been implemented, and why the mental health crisis has escalated.One can...
What an amazing perspective this book gave me. I was working in a female-dominated industry at one time, and desperately needed some support. I was a woman who was constantly a target for saboteurs to attack, and also the type others wanted emotional support from. It was all exhausting. Once I r...
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