Preface German Berrios; Introduction: mind state and history in Britain 1960–2010 George Ikkos and Nick Bouras; Part I. Social and Institutional Contexts: 1. Historical perspectives in mental health and psychiatry Joanna Bourke; 2. International context Edward Shorter; 3. Liberty's command: liberal ideology, the mixed economy and the British welfare state Graham Scambler; 4. Social theory, psychiatry and mental health services Rob Poole and Catherine Robinson; 5. A sociological perspective on psychiatric epidemiology in Britain David Pilgrim and Anne Rogers; 6. Life, change and charisma: memories of psychiatric hospitals in the 1960's Thomas Stephenson and Claire Hilton; 7. Mental asylums, social exclusion and public scandals Louise Hide; Part II. The Cogwheels of Change: 8. Mental health law: 'legalism' and 'medicalism'- 'old' and 'new' George Szmukler and Larry Gostin; 9. Ken Clarke in conversation with Peter Tyrer: my role in justice and health Peter Tyrer; 10. UK mental health policy and practice Jon Glasby, Jerry Tew and Sarah-Jane Fenton; 11. Mental health policy and economics in Britain Paul McCrone; 12. True confessions of a new managerialist Elaine Murphy; 13. Subjectivity, citizenship and mental health: service user perspectives Peter Beresford and Liz Brosnan; 14. The voluntary sector Paul Farmer and Emily Blackshaw; 15. Women in UK psychiatry and mental health Gianetta Rands; 16. Biological psychiatry in the UK and beyond Stephen Lawrie; 17. The pharmaceutical industry and the standardisation of psychiatric practice David Healy; 18. The evolution of psychiatric practice in Britain Allan Beveridge; 19. The changing roles of the professions in psychiatry and mental health- psychiatric (mental health) nursing Kevin Gournay and Peter Carter; 20. Critical friends: antipsychiatry and clinical psychology Tom Burns and John Hall; Part III. Implications in Practice: 21. Changing generations I: children, adolescents and young people Arnon Bentovim; 22. Changing generations II: the challenges of ageism in mental health policy Claire Hilton; 23. Changing services I: clinical psychiatric perspective on community and primary care psychiatry mental health services Trevor Turner; 24. Changing services II: from colony to community: people with developmental intellectual disability Peter Carpenter; 25. Drugs, drug harms and drug laws in the UK – lessons from history Ilana Crome and David Nutt; 26. Homelessness and mental health Philip Timms; 27. From fear and pity to parity, politics and public mental health Peter Byrne; 28. The origins of the dangerous and severe personality disorder programme in England Peter Tyrer; 29. Psychiatry and mentally disordered offenders in England John Gunn and Pamela Taylor; 30. Community psychiatry: a work in progress Tom Craig; 31. UK deinstitutionalisation: neoliberal values and mental health Andrew Scull; Part IV. Special Topics: 32. Dealing with the melancholy void: responding to parents who experience pregnancy loss and perinatal death Hedy Cleaver and Wendy Rose; 33. Work, unemployment and mental health Jed Boardman and Miles Rinaldi; 34. Sexual diversity and UK psychiatry and mental health Annie Bartlett; 35. Race, state and mind Doreen Joseph and Kam Bhui; 36. Migrants and asylum seekers Peter Hughes and Cornelius Katona; 37. Religion, spirituality and mental health Esther Ansah-Asamoah, Jamie Hacker Hughes, Ahmed Hankir and Christopher C. H. Cook; 38. Soldiers, veterans and psychological casualties: legacies of N Ireland, Falklands, Afghanistan and Iraq Edgar Jones; Epilogue: mind, state, society and 'our psychiatric future' George Ikkos and Nick Bouras.