For years I was looking for a book that examined the current state of affairs of US healthcare while at the same time talking about new, integrative strategies to psychiatric care. In this volume, Tomasi made it possible. This book talks as much about healthcare systems and administration as it talks about ways to improve medical and psychological care for mental health disorders.The interesting thing is that the book offers a full description, with hundreds of specific examples (including clinical research, statistical analyses, and focus groups), of how to incorporate this in everyday clinical practice in a public hospital, which is extremely rare. In fact, toward the end of the book, the author seems to imply that the greatness of scientific research and psychiatric care he witnessed are now in danger of disappearing, due to healthcare progressively becoming only a money-making industry with lack of attention to the real needs of people.Whether working in private practice or conducting research in public health, this book is a must-have.