In Empire of Madness: Reimagining Western Mental Health Care for Everyone, Dr. Khameer Kidia offers an urgent rethinking of the Western approach to mental health, which treats the symptoms rather than the exploitative systems causing our distress. Clear-eyed and openhearted, Kidia asks the nuanced questions unaddressed by our current mental health model: How do history, culture, and politics shape mental distress? With rigorous research, cutting analysis, and illuminating prose, Kidia invites us to reimagine mental health as a global idea where our wellbeing is mutual and everyone’s voice—patients, caregivers, and healthcare workers alike—matters. Join the New America Fellows and Future Security Programs for a conversation with 2023 New America (ASU Future Security) Fellow Khameer Kidia and 2023 New America (Emerson Collective) Fellow Mona Chalabi about Empire of Madness. Speakers:Khameer Kidia2023 New America (ASU Future Security) FellowAuthor, Empire of MadnessMona Chalabi2023 New America (Emerson Collective) FellowCopies of Empire of Madness are available for purchase here through our bookselling partner Solid State Books.