PART ONE: UNDERSTANDING MENTAL HEALTH AND MENTAL DISTRESS: DEBATES AND THEORIES.- Introduction.- Psychological Approaches to Mental Health and Distress; R. Dallos.- A Psychiatric Perspective on Mental Distress; R.E. Kendall.- 'Schizophrenia' Re-evaluated; M. Boyle.- Life Events Loss and Depressive Disorders; G. Browne.- Transition and Loss; C. Murray.- Parkes Women and Madness; P. Chesler.- The Cultural Context of Mental Distress; R. Warner.- Labelling Mental Illness; T. Scheff.- On Being Sane in Insane Places; D.L. Rosenhan.- Reversing Deviance; R. Gomm.- Some Problematic Aspects of Dementia; T. Kitwood.- The Families' Experience; D. Jones.- PART TWO: MENTAL HEALTH POLICY, SOCIAL INEQUALITY AND CIVIL RIGHTS.- Introduction Mental Health and Inequality; R. Gomm.- George III and Changing Views of Madness; L. Jones.- Professionals, the State and the Development of Mental Health Policy; J. Busfield.- Beyond the Asylum; J. Leff.- Scare in the Community: Britain in Moral Panic; M. Muijen.- Media Images of Mental Distress; G. Philo, J. Secker, S. Platt, L. Henderson, G. McLaughlin and J. Burnside.- Towards Understanding Suicide; S. Taylor and A. Gilmour.- Two Notions of Risk in Mental Health Debates; D. Pilgrim and A. Rogers.- The History of Tranquilliser Use; J. Gabe.- The Black Experience of Mental Health Law; D. Browne.- The Need to Change Mental Health Law; N. Eastman.- PART THREE: INVOLVING USERS IN MENTAL HEALTH SERVICES.- Introduction.- The History of the User Movement in the UK; P. Campbell.- The Lives of 'Users' - P. Barham and R. Hayward.- Structuring Effective User Involvement; G. Maza.- Mental Health Services that Empower Women; J. Williams and G. Watson.- Asian Women Speak Out; S. Fenton and A. Sadiq.- Focusing on Health: Focus Groups for Consulting About Health Needs; M. Tang and C. Cunninghame.- What Users Want from Crisis Services; L. Sayce, Y. Christie, M. Slade and A. Cobb.- PART FOUR: EXAMINING PRACTICE.- Introduction.- Using Research to Change Practice; G. Parry.- Reviewing Advances in Psychiatry; R. Ramsay and T. Fahy.- Normalising Professional Skills; D. Brandon.- Developing a Bridge to Women's Social Action; S. Holland.- Working Psychotherapeutically with Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse; F. Gardner.- Treating Anorexia Nervosa; J. Russell.- Rehabilitating Voice-Hearers; M. Romme.- Communicating as if Your Life Depended on It; J. Killick.- Practising Cultural Psychiatry; S. Acharyya.- Maintaining an Emergency Service; P. Tyrer.- Working with Refugees and Survivors of Torture; J. Shackman and J. Reynolds.- Doing Being Human; T. Heller.