"An Introduction to Mental Health and Illness: Critical Perspectives offers an engaging, interdisciplinary approach to understanding the social production of mental health and illness. Bringing together voices from researchers and mental health practitioners, An Introduction to Mental Health and Illness shifts the conversation to consider how mental health and illness are produced, supported, and limited by existing models of diagnosis and treatment. Practical, analytical, and inclusive, An Introduction to Mental Health and Illness balances robust research with thoughtful in-book pedagogy that gives students the historical, social, and context-based analysis they need to be active thinkers in the field of mental health."--