Modern Mental Health: Critical Perspectives on Psychiatric Practice

The World Health Organisation recently confirmed that mental Illness was set to become the biggest threat to human well-being in the twenty first century. Mental illness accounts for more disability adjusted life years lost per year than any other health condition in the UK. No other health condition matches mental ill health in the combined extent of prevalence, persistence and breadth of impact.

Modern Mental Health offers an alternative and thought-provoking perspective to the conventiona...