Growing up in the 1960s in the suburbs of Chicago, Meg Kissinger's family seemed to live a charmed life. But behind closed doors, a harsher reality was unfolding. So begins the personal story of one family's struggles, then opens outward as Kissinger details how childhood tragedy catalyzed a journalism career focused on exposing our country's flawed mental health care. Kissinger explores the consequences of shame, the havoc of botched public policy, and the hope offered by new treatment strategies.
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