My Brother's Keeper: The Untold Stories Behind the Business of Mental Health-and How to Stop the Abandonment of the Mentally Ill

A leading psychiatrist seeks to transform our understanding of mental health care and how it fits into larger social and economic forces-and proposes an effective and compassionate new framework for healing.

Mental health care in America has become atrocious. Developments in treatment methods and medication are inaccessible to those who need them most. People seeking treatment are routinely funneled into homelessness and prison while a mental health epidemic ravages younger generations. It s...