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Author: Jonathan Foiles
Publisher: Belt Publishing
Imprint: Belt Publishing
Dimensions:
Width: 12.40cm
, Height: 1.30cm
, Length: 18.00cm
Weight: 0.159kg
ISBN: 9781948742474
ISBN 10: 1948742470
Pages: 176
Publication Date: 06 August 2019
Recommended Age: From 17 years
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General/trade
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: Available To Order
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Reviews
Chicago-based mental health clinician Foiles looks at the many ways in which urban poverty, crime, violence, and other socio-economic factors can destroy a life. ... An urgent call for reform worthy of serious consideration. -- Kirkus Reviews
Chicago-based mental health clinician Foiles looks at the many ways in which urban poverty, crime, violence, and other socio-economic factors can destroy a life. ... An urgent call for reform worthy of serious consideration. -- Kirkus Reviews In his book, This City Is Killing Me: Community Trauma and Toxic Stress in Urban America, [Foiles] seeks to highlight how larger traumas within a community--things like unemployment, poverty, lack of affordable housing, violence--as well as historical factors (Jim Crow laws, redlining, displacement) can have a toxic impact that makes it harder for people within those neighborhoods to thrive. -- Marissa De La Cerda, Chicago Reader
Chicago-based mental health clinician Foiles looks at the many ways in which urban poverty, crime, violence, and other socio-economic factors can destroy a life. ... An urgent call for reform worthy of serious consideration. -- Kirkus Reviews In his book, This City Is Killing Me: Community Trauma and Toxic Stress in Urban America, [Foiles] seeks to highlight how larger traumas within a community--things like unemployment, poverty, lack of affordable housing, violence--as well as historical factors (Jim Crow laws, redlining, displacement) can have a toxic impact that makes it harder for people within those neighborhoods to thrive. -- Marissa De La Cerda, Chicago Reader
In his book, This City Is Killing Me: Community Trauma and Toxic Stress in Urban America, [Foiles] seeks to highlight how larger traumas within a community--things like unemployment, poverty, lack of affordable housing, violence--as well as historical factors (Jim Crow laws, redlining, displacement) can have a toxic impact that makes it harder for people within those neighborhoods to thrive. -- Marissa De La Cerda, Chicago Reader Chicago-based mental health clinician Foiles looks at the many ways in which urban poverty, crime, violence, and other socio-economic factors can destroy a life. ... An urgent call for reform worthy of serious consideration. -- Kirkus Reviews
"""Chicago-based mental health clinician Foiles looks at the many ways in which urban poverty, crime, violence, and other socio-economic factors can destroy a life. ... An urgent call for reform worthy of serious consideration."" -- Kirkus Reviews ""In his book, This City Is Killing Me: Community Trauma and Toxic Stress in Urban America, [Foiles] seeks to highlight how larger traumas within a community--things like unemployment, poverty, lack of affordable housing, violence--as well as historical factors (Jim Crow laws, redlining, displacement) can have a toxic impact that makes it harder for people within those neighborhoods to thrive."" -- Marissa De La Cerda, Chicago Reader"
Author Information
Jonathan Foiles, LSCW, is a therapist at an urban community mental health clinic in Chicago. He received his A.M. from the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration and is a member of the Chicago Center for Psychoanalysis. His writing has appeared in Slate and Belt Magazine.
