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

"Nikolas Rose brings a remarkable wealth of scholarship and experience to seriously difficult questions about mental health - and his inspiring answers suggest original and enlightening solutions. Rose's brilliant analyses provide stunning revelations about practical ways mental distress can be alleviated. Everyone with any stake in psychiatry and mental health should read this book."—Emily Martin, New York University "In another landmark volume, Rose presents the culmination of decades of critical questioning about the reach of psychiatry's long arms into all our lives, whether we live with mental distress or not. His 'Seven Hard Questions' are ones we need to keep asking."—Sarah Carr, University of Birmingham "If you want a scholarly and thought-provoking critique of current psychiatry, then this is the book for you."—Tom Burns, Times Higher Education Supplement "Even-handed, meticulously researched, offering a wealth of historical detail explaining how psychiatry has got to where it is today."—The Psychologist "Rose's writing is logical and straightforward, and he is able to convey complex arguments and nebulous ideas in a way that will be clear to most readers."—Journal of Mental Health