The Best Minds
A Story of Friendship, Madness, and the Tragedy of Good Intentions
What's it about
What if the very things we do to help someone we love are the things that hurt them the most? Explore the heartbreaking story of two brilliant childhood friends whose paths diverge—one to a life of promise, the other into the depths of schizophrenia. Based on Jonathan Rosen's powerful memoir, you'll discover the devastating impact of America's mental healthcare failures and the tragic consequences of good intentions gone wrong. This is a profound look at friendship, madness, and the complex, often painful, reality of caring for someone with severe mental illness.
Meet the author
Jonathan Rosen is an acclaimed author whose essays and reviews have appeared in The New York Times, The New Yorker, and The Atlantic for over two decades. A graduate of Yale and Berkeley, his profound understanding of mental illness is deeply personal. Rosen’s critically lauded book, The Best Minds, draws from his forty-year friendship with Michael Laudor, a brilliant Yale Law student whose life was tragically derailed by schizophrenia. This intimate experience provides the powerful, compassionate core of his celebrated work.
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