Mental Health Mondays: How People with Mental Illnesses Are Influencing Reforms

All Of It with Alison Stewart | May 11

Often when creating new policies or legislation about mental health care and treatment, one group is left out of the conversation: people with mental illnesses. A new book seeks to spotlight the people working to change that. Fredrick E. Vars, a professor at the University of Alabama School of Law, discusses his book Through the Fire: How People with Mental Illness Are Empowering Each Other. 

Cover art courtesy of the publisher

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