This City Is Killing Me: Community Trauma and Toxic Stress in Urban America

Jonathan Foiles weaves together psychology and public policy, exploring the trauma underlying urbanization in a book hailed as “an urgent call for reform” (Kirkus Reviews).

When Jonathan Foiles was a graduate student in social work, he had to choose between specializing in either mental health or public policy. But once he began working, he found it impossible to tell the two apart. As he counseled poor patients from Chicago’s South and West Sides, he realized individual therapy couldn’t a...