Are We to Blame for the Colorado Theater Shooter?
The U.S. mental health care system is failing youth who are struggling with the onset of psychosis—the very time when effective help could make a difference.
Are We to Blame for the Colorado Theater Shooter?
Neely Laurenzo Myers
Neely Laurenzo Myers is a medical anthropologist who studies mental health recovery and mental health services in the United States and Tanzania, particularly among people with lived experiences of psychosis and trauma. Myers earned her Ph.D. at the University of Chicago and teaches at Southern Methodist University. Her book Recovery’s Edge: An Ethnography of Mental Health Care and Moral Agency received the Norman L. and Roselea J. Goldberg Prize from Vanderbilt University Press for the best book in the area of medicine. Follow her on Twitter @neelymyers.