My Brother's Keeper

“Rosenlicht offers glimpses of hope, reminding readers that people continue to fight for a better system in America that encompasses all citizens, with emphasis on care, not profit. My Brother’s Keeper is a scathing look at a crisis that can no longer be ignored and a heartfelt call to demand change.” – Kirkus Reviews
“Dr. Rosenlicht, a leading thinker in psychiatry, has written a masterful and moving narrative that provides insight into the very human struggles of mental health care and pulls back the curtain on the vast and complex factors that has led to the crisis of care for so many people. My Brother’s Keeper fiercely demonstrates the societal forces that drive us to embrace business goals, and how we must reverse this process that dehumanizes both clinicians and their patients. This deeply important book is a must-read.” – Jodi Halpern, M.D., PhD, Chancellor’s Chair, University of California, Berkeley
“By turns infuriating, insightful, educational and, ultimately hopeful, My Brother’s Keeper isn’t merely an indictment of a crazy and broken system. Nicholas Rosenlicht walks us through how we got to this terrible place, and offers real—and plausible—solutions for caring for the seriously mentally ill in the U.S. A truly compelling must-read for anyone who knows anyone affected by mental illness.” * Katie Hafner, author of The Boys *
“This is a brave book, an important book, a hard-hitting indictment of a mental health care system that neglects and exploits the most vulnerable. For a half a century, Dr. Rosenlicht has witnessed first-hand the evolution of health care to a business model geared to profit. Today’s mental health crisis is doubly tragic since treatments exist, solutions are at hand, if only resources were justly allocated. Calm and compassionate as Rosenlicht’s account is, My Brother’s Keeper is also a long-overdue call to arms.” * Gayle Greene, Professor Emerita, Scripps College, author of Immeasurable Outcomes *

Nicholas Rosenlicht, M.D. is a clinical professor at UC San Francisco School of Medicine in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences. During his time at UCSF, he has worked at the San Francisco VA hospital in both the outpatient department and on the consultation-liaison team and has served on the Human Subjects Committee of their Human Research Protection Program. He has more than forty years of clinical, research, administrative, and teaching experience and was previously on the faculty at the UCLA School of Medicine, UC Davis School of Medicine, and the University of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey (now the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School) and is the author of more than thirty peer-reviewed publications.

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