Professor Dinesh Bhugra, Past- President, Royal College of Psychiatrists (2008-2011), World Psychiatric Association (2014-2017), British Medical Association (2018-2019), and Professor Emeritus of Mental Health and Cultural Diversity, Kings College London. He has published widely with several books winning awards and going into multiple editions and translated into Japanese and Mandarin. His Oxford Textbook for Public Mental Health won BMA Book of the Year award in 2019 and Practical Cultural Psychiatry was highly recommended. Editor of the International Journal of Social Psychiatry and International Review of Psychiatry. He is also on the board of several charities and chairs DocHealth charity.Professor Driss Moussaoui is Professor Emeritus at Ibn Rushd University Psychiatric Centre, Casablanca, Morocco.Professor Tom J Craig, Emeritus Professor of Social Psychiatry King's College London and Past President World Association of Social Psychiatry (2013-16). He qualified in medicine at the University of the West Indies and trained in psychiatry in Nottingham, UK. Appointed as Professor of Community Psychiatry in 1990 with his clinical base in the South London and Maudsley NHS Trust. His research focuses on developing and evaluating community-based psychiatric services including residential alternatives to the hospital asylum, specialised services for homeless mentally ill people, services for first episode psychosis, and psychosocial interventions including computer-based AVATAR therapy for auditory hallucinations.

• Section 1: HISTORY AND DEVELOPMENT 1: Paul Bebbington and Elizabeth Kuipers: Historical development 2: Antonio Ventriglio, Rajiv Wijesuriya, and Dinesh Bhugra: All psychiatry is social 3: Peter Tyrer: Categories and their implications 4: Moritz E. Wigand and Thomas Becker: Social constructs and diagnostic perspectives 5: Gianluigi Campanile, Giuseppe Fanelli, Chiara Fabbri, Alessandro Serretti, and Julien Mendlewicz: Epi-genetics and aetiology of mental illness 6: Dinesh Bhugra, Max Pemberton, and Sam N. Gnanapragasam: Sociology and social psychiatry 7: James V. Lucey and Colman Noctor: The Contemporary Dynamics of the Social Relationship: the interface between social media and the human psyche in the maintenance of our mental wellbeing 8: Jack Hubbett: Anthropology and social psychiatry Section 2: SOCIAL WORLD 9: Tom J. Craig: Social epidemiology 10: Cameron Watson, Rajiv Wijesuriya, and Dinesh Bhugra: Culture and mental illness 11: John W Berry: Culture and identity 12: Vishal Bhavsar: Globalisation and social psychiatry 13: Dan Poulter, Antonio Ventrigilo, and Sam N. Gnanapragasam: Disasters, Emergencies and Social Psychiatry 14: Koravangattu Valsraj, Albert Persaud, Max Pemberton, and Vishal Bhavsar: Geopsychiatry and social psychiatry 15: Kimia Ziafat, Jean N. Westenberg, and R. Michael Krausz: Psychiatry in the time of pandemic 16: Cameron Watson, Rajiv Wijesuriya, and Dinesh Bhugra: Migrants, migration and social psychiatry 17: Sam N. Gnanapragasam, Max Pemberton, and Dinesh Bhugra: Social Psychiatry and refugees and asylum seekers 18: Chad Beyer and Dan J Stein: Trauma and Resilience 19: Alice B. Roberts, Neil P. Roberts, and Jonathan I. Bisson: Impact of trauma 20: Ruth Bell and Michael Marmot: Social determinants 21: Debanjan Banerjee and Prama Bhattacharya: Revisiting the "gap": Intersections of health inequality, poverty and psychological wellbeing 22: Jerzy Eisenberg-Guyot and Seth J. Prins: The Impact of Capitalism on Mental Health: An Epidemiological Perspective Section 3: PERSONAL WORLD 23: Federico Zanca, Edoardo Caporusso, Giulia Maria Giordano, and Silvana Galderisi: Gender 24: Cameron Watson, Daniel Poulter, Antonio Ventriglio, and Dinesh Bhugra: Masculinity, male roles, mental illnesses and social psychiatry 25: Peter J. Verhagen: Spirituality and resilience 26: Bino Thomas and Tony Sam George: Families and psychiatric disorders 27: Soumitra Pathare and Arjun Kapoor: Discrimination and stigma 28: Oyedeji A Ayonrinde and Nomusa Mngoma: Poverty and social psychiatry 29: Jed Boardman and Tom J. Craig: Unemployment and work 30: Keith Hariman: Social media 31: Reinhard M Krausz, Kiana Kianpoor, Kerry Jang, and D Vigo: Urbanization as the new framework for psychiatry 32: João Mauricio Castaldelli-Maia, Antonio Ventriglio, and Dinesh Bhugra: Homelessness and mental health 33: Martin Rotenberg and Kwame McKenzie: Social Capital 34: Reinhard M Krausz, A. Kazemi, S. Bacinschi, and M. Kamel: The web and its impact on mental health care Section 4: CLINICAL CONDITIONS & SPECIAL GROUPS 35: Tom J. Craig: Psychosis: Consequence and cause of fractured personal relationships? 36: Matcheri S. Keshavan and Jaya Padmanabhan: Schizophrenia 37: Manamohan Nataraj, Chaitra Nagaraj Kumble, Sundarnag Ganjekar, and Geetha Desai: Common mental disorders 38: Antonio Ventriglio, João Mauricio Castaldelli-Maia, Julio Torales, Egor Chumakov, and Domenico De Berardis: Social aspects of depression 39: William H Orme, Christopher J Fowler, and John M Oldham: Personality disorders 40: Shamil Wanigaratne, Luke Mitcheson, and Robert Hill: Social psychiatry and addictions 41: Dasha Nicholls and Lidushi Nagularaj: Eating disorders 42: Melanie Palmer and Stephen Scott: Social determinants of child psychopathology 43: Nhi-Ha T. Trinh, Bridget Wallace, Richard Bernard-Negron, and Iqbal "Ike" Ahmed: Late life disorders: Sociocultural Factors and the Mental Health of Elders 44: Urvakhsh Meherwan Mehta and Santosh K Chaturvedi: Somatisation: medically unexplained symptoms 45: Deepthi Satheesa Varma, Prerna Kukreti, and Prabha S. Chandra: Social & cultural factors in perinatal mental health 46: Diego de Leo and Andrea Vieccelli Giannotti: A contemporary view of Suicide 47: Harjit Bagga and Gurvinder Kalra: Sexual diversity 48: Howard Ryland: Mental illness in prisoners 49: Amala Jovia Maria Jesu, Satheesh Kumar Gangadharan, Sabyasachi Bhaumik, and Regi T Alexander: Intellectual disability 50: Miia Männikkö and Mari Helin: Mental illness in the family: the view of a family member Section 5: SOCIAL INTERVENTIONS 51: Jonathan Campion: Public mental health 52: Catrin Lewis and Jonathan I. Bisson: Psychological first aid 53: Wendy Burn: Social prescribing 54: Brendan D. Kelly: Social interventions in common mental disorders 55: Keith Hariman: Digital Interventions for mental health 56: Alice Barbara Debelle and Nisha Dogra: Managing children and young people 57: Laurie Hare-Duke, Fiona Ng, and Mike Slade: Recovery and the mental health system 58: Keith Hariman: Tele-mental health 59: Ursula Werneke: Psychopharmacology and social factors 60: Ekaterina Sukhanova: Leisure Activities: Art in the Healing Process 61: Raghu Raghavan, Brian Brown, Jonathan Coope, and Muthusamy Sivakami: Resilience, mental health and migration 62: Kaustubh Joag, Jasmine Kalha, Laura Shields-Zeeman, Sonali Kumar, and Soumitra Pathare: Atmiyata - a community led intervention for common mental disorders in rural India 63: Adalberto Barreto, Henriqueta Camarotti, and Nicole Hugon: Integrative community therapy: The power of sharing in communities 64: Ben Wright: Lessons from the English Improving Access to Psychological Therapies Programme (IAPT) in delivering primary care psychotherapy Section 6: CHALLENGES IN POLICY 65: Tom J. Craig and Jane McCarthy: Deinstitutionalisation in the United Kingdom 66: Pierluigi Lanzotti, Ilaria De Luca, and Luigi Janiri: The De-Institutionalisation of the Mentally Ill: Lessons from Italy 67: Andrew Molodynski: Coercion in community mental health care 68: Brendan D. Kelly: Mental health legislation and social rights 69: Soumitra Pathare and Arjun Kapoor: Human rights, UN convention on rights of persons with disabilities and psychiatry - on a collision course? Section 7: MENTAL HEALTH ACROSS THE GLOBE 70: Mirella Ruggeri and Alessandra Martinelli: Challenges to mental health in Europe 71: Dusica Lecic-Tosevski and Maja Milosavljevic: Mental Health Care in Eastern Europe and the Balkans 72: Akin Ojagbemi and Oye Gureje: Mental health in low- and middle-income countries 73: Raghu Raghavan, Brian Brown, and Nadia Svirydzenka: Mental health literacy in low- and middle-income countries 74: Diego Asturias Fernández, Daniel Poulter, and Sam N. Gnanapragasam: Psychological treatments in low- and middle-income countries 75: João Mauricio Castaldelli-Maia: Mental health in Latin America 76: Tarek Okasha: Mental Health in the Middle East 77: David Ndetei, Victoria Mutiso, Christine Musyimi, Rita Alietsi, and Frida Kameti: Mental health in Africa - the case study of Kenya Section 8: FUTURE 78: Saeed Ahmed and Shahana Ayub: Training in social psychiatry 79: Dinesh Bhugra, Driss Moussaoui, and Tom J. Craig: Conclusions

Kudos and congratulations to Professors Bhugra, Moussaoui, Craig, and all the authors for a terrific, well-timed textbook on such an important, critical area of psychiatry.