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Lay My Burden Down - Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis among African-Americans (Paperback)
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Lay My Burden Down - Suicide and the Mental Health Crisis among African-Americans (Paperback)
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"A remarkable achievement." --Harriet A. Washington, The New
England Journal of Medicine
Through stories (including their own), interviews, and analysis of
the most recent data available, Dr. Alvin Poussaint and journalist
Amy Alexander offer a groundbreaking look at "posttraumatic slavery
syndrome," the unique physical and emotional perils for black
people that are the legacy of slavery and persistent racism. They
examine the historical, cultural, and social factors that make many
blacks reluctant to seek health care, and cite ways that everyone
from the layperson to the health care provider can help.
"As a black woman thrashing with the new class divide and an
intermittent but chronic depression that feels as old as rivers, I
found [Lay My Burden Down] a relief, an assured voice in a
wilderness [that] I felt I was essentially wandering alone." --Erin
Aubry Kaplan, Salon
"A persuasive moral indictment of the mental-health establishment
for not working harder to rid itself of prejudicial images of
African-Americans within its own practices, and to address them in
earnest in the larger society." --Matthew V. Johnson, The Christian
Century
"A stunner of a book. . . . The positive message here is that these
scourges can be prevented." --Leon Eisenberg, M.D., coauthor of
Children in a Changing Health System
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