Mental Health Crisis

Across the world, anxiety, depression, loneliness and psychological distress have become central concerns for individuals, families, workplaces and governments. Awareness has grown, treatment has expanded, and conversations once considered taboo are now part of everyday life.

Yet the sense of crisis persists.

Mental Health Crisis examines the social, economic and cultural forces shaping modern mental health. It explores how work, technology, isolation, inequality, changing expectations and the pressures of contemporary life interact with psychological wellbeing.

Moving beyond simplistic explanations, the book considers the limitations of individualised solutions to problems that may also have deeper structural causes.

What does it mean to live well in a society that increasingly measures achievement through productivity, consumption and constant connectivity? How should institutions respond to psychological distress? And what might a healthier society actually look like?

Accessible and thought-provoking, Mental Health Crisis invites readers to reconsider one of the most important challenges of our time.

Understanding the mental health crisis means looking beyond the individual to the world in which we live.