Chapter One: What is psychiatry?

Our psychiatric lives

Everyone's little helpers

Many psychiatries

Psychiatry defines the boundaries

What mental disorder is

Psychiatry as a political science

The politics of psychiatry

Critical psychiatry today

OnwardsÉ

Chapter Two: Is there really an 'epidemic' of mental disorder?

'The burden of brain disorders'

Counting the costs

Burden today

From 'mental' disorders to 'brain disorders'

So is there an 'epidemic'?

Chapter Three: Is it all the fault of neoliberal capitalism?

Our unhappy present

The factory of unhappiness

Social capital

Loneliness

Stress

So is it all the fault of neoliberal capitalism?

Chapter Four: If mental disorders exist, how shall we know them?

Diagnosis as a social phenomenon

Solution One: Define the phenotype

Solution Two: Find the biomarker

Solution Three: Straight to the brain

Solution Four: Beyond diagnosis

From diagnosis to formulation

Chapter Five: Are mental disorders 'brain disorders'?

Proven by psychopharmaceuticals?

Discovered in the genes?

Visible in the brain images?

So are mental disorders brain disorders?

Chapter Six: Does psychopharmacology have a future?

How did we get here?

The drugs don't do nothing, but

The pipeline is empty!

Beyond psychopharmacology?

Chapter Seven: Who needs global mental health?

Grand challenge: no health without mental health?

The debate

Beyond the conflict?

All our futures?

Chapter Eight: Experts by experience?

Mental patient movements

From 'on our own' to 'nothing about us without us'

The politics of recovery

A new epistemology of mental distress

Have we moved beyond the monologue?

Chapter Nine: Is another psychiatry possible?

Manifestoes for the future

Seven answers to seven hard questions

Another psychiatry, another biopolitics