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In Within Our Reach: Ending the Mental Health Crisis, Rosalynn Carter and coauthors Susan K. Golant and Kathryn E. Cade 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 issues at 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. She describes a system that continues to fail those in need, even though recent scientific breakthroughs with mental illness 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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William Cottengim
reviewed Within Our Reach: Ending the Mental Health Crisis on May 16, 2010
Within Our Reach
I wasn't aware of Rosalynn Carter's work in the mental health field until recently and found this book a full account of the work that she has done in her 35 years working on this issue. She covers the basics of why our current system fails us - fails all of us - and programs that have been put in place to help address those issues and gaps. But certainly calls for the rally to arms to put more effective programs in place.
Quote: For diabetes and heart disease, you want to know what works over many, many years. The same is true for bipolar disease. You need to know what's going to be effective in the long haul. So you begin to think not so much about the magic bullet, but [about:] how we detect these disorders very early and develop interventions that are more preemptive than preventive.
Very honest in cataloging where we have made some improvements but the true aim of the book, i believe, is to make obvious the gap between the current system and the system that we need to put in place. As she says 'this is everyone's issue'.
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