David Pilgrim is Honorary Professor of Health and Social Policy, University of Liverpool, UK and Visiting Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Southampton. After training and working as a clinical psychologist he completed a PhD examining psychotherapy in the organisational setting of the British NHS. He then went on to complete a Master’s in sociology. He has worked at the boundary between clinical psychology and medical sociology for the past 20 years and has produced over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals, based upon his research into mental health policy and practice. His years working in the British NHS provided him with extensive everyday experience of the theoretical and policy aspects of mental health expressed in practical settings. One of his books, A Sociology of Mental Health and Illness (3rd edition, Open University Press, 2005), co-authored with Anne Rogers, won the British Medical Association’s medical book of the year award for 2006. Currently he is writing a book on child sexual abuse and public policy.

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• VOLUME ONE: MISERY ACROSS TIME AND PLACEMelancholia and Depression during the 19th Century: A Conceptual History - G.E. BerriosNeurosis, Psychodynamics and DSM-III: A History of the Controversy - R. Bayer and R. SpitzerDSM-III and the Transformation of American Psychiatry: A History - Mitchell WilsonA Comparison of DSM-IV and DSM-5 Panel Members’ Financial Associations with Industry: A Pernicious Problem Persists - Lisa Cosgrove and Sheldon KrimskyGrand Challenges in Global Mental Health - Pamela Collins, Vikram Patel, Sarah Joestl, Dana March, Thomas Insel and Abdallah DaarSelfhood and Identity in Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and Hinduism: Contrasts with the West - David HoMaps, Models and Narratives: The Ways People Talk about Depression - Renata Kokanovic, Ella Butler, Hariz Halilovich, Victoria Palmer, Frances Griffiths, Christopher Dowrick and Jane GunnCulture, Relativism and the Expression of Mental Distress: South Asian Women in Britain - Steve Fenton and Azra Sadiq-SangsterCulture and Mental Health: An Overview - A. MarsellaUniversal Mental Health: Re-Evaluating the Call for Global Mental Health - Anindya Das and Mohan RaoDevelopment, Freedom, and Rising Happiness: A Global Perspective (1981–2007) - Ronald Inglehart, Roberto Foa, Christopher Peterson and Christian WelzelThe Tavistock Programme: The Government of Subjectivity and Social Life - Peter Miller and Nikolas RoseDepression and Mental Health in Neoliberal Times: A Critical Analysis of Policy and Discourse - Katherine TeghtsoonianDepressive Disorders in Europe: Prevalence Figures from the ODIN Study - J.L. Ayuso-Mateos et al.Global Burden of Depression: The Intersection of Culture and Medicine - Jan Scott and Barbara DickeyShould Uncomplicated Bereavement-related Depression Be Reclassified as a Disorder in DSM-5? - Jerome WakefieldVOLUME TWO: MEDICAL APPROACHES TO COMMON MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMSNeurosis Divisible? - P. TyrerThe Failure of Diagnostic Psychiatry and Some Prospects of Scientific Progress Offered by Critical Realism - David PilgrimThe Medicalisation of Misery: A Critical Realist Analysis of the Concept of Depression - David Pilgrim and Richard BentallThe Uses of Naming and the Origin of the Myth of Mental Illness - Thomas SzaszPrevalence, Severity and Comorbidity of Twelve-month DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCSR) - Ronald Kessler, Wai Tat Chiu, Olga Demler and Ellen WaltersAn Inventory for Measuring Depression - A.T. Beck et al.The Structure of the Genetic and Environmental Risk Factors for Six Major Psychiatric Disorders in Women: Phobia, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Bulimia, Major Depression, and Alcoholism - Kenneth Kendler, Ellen Walters, Michael Neale, Ronald Kessler, Andrew Heath and Lindon EavesResearch into Putative Biological Mechanisms of Mental Disorders Has Been of No Value to Clinical Psychiatry - David Kingdon and Allan YoungExperiencing Depression, Experiencing the Depressed: The Separate Worlds of Patients and Doctors - Anne Rogers, Carl May and Dianne OliverInitial Severity and Antidepressant Benefits: A Meta-analysis of Data Submitted to the Food and Drug Administration - Irving Kirsch, Brett Deacon, Tania Huedo-Medina, Alan Scoboria, Thomas Moore and Blair JohnsonMedicalising Unhappiness: New Classification of Depression Risks More Patients Being Put on Drug Treatment from Which They Will Not Benefit - Christopher Dowrick and Allen FrancesAnatomy of an Epidemic: Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America - Robert WhitakerWhat Is the Relationship between Diabetes and Depression? A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis of Patient Experience of Co-Morbidity - Linda Gask, Wendy Macdonald and Peter BowerShould Global Burden of Disease Estimates Include Depression as a Risk Factor for Coronary Heart Disease? - Fiona Charlson, Nicholas Stapelberg, Amanda Baxter and Harvey WhitefordThe Association between Emotional Wellbeing and the Incidence of Stroke in Older Adults - Glenn Oster et al.VOLUME THREE: PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO COMMON MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMSMourning and Melancholia Revisited: Correspondences between Principles of Freudian Metapsychology and Empirical Findings in Neuropsychiatry - Robin Carhart-Harris, Helen Mayberg, Andrea Malizia and David NuttThe Centrality of Personal Relationships in the Creation and Amelioration of Mental Health Problems: The Current Interdisciplinary Case - David Pilgrim, Anne Rogers and Richard BentallMother-infant Separation in Monkeys - Billy Seay, Ernst Hansen and Harry HarlowPsychopathology in a Large Cohort of Sexually Abused Children Followed up to 43 Years - Margaret Cutajar, Paul Mullen, James Ogloff, Stuart Thomas, David Wells and Josie Spataro‘When Strangers Meet’: John Bowlby and Harry Harlow on Attachment Behaviour - Frank van Der Horst, Helen LeRoy and René van der VeerExperimental Neuroses - Ivan PavlovConcerning Human and Animal Neuroses - Ivan PavlovA Dynamic Theory of Anxiety and Hysteria - H. EysenckConditioned Emotional Reactions - John Watson and Rosalie RaynorPsychotherapy by Reciprocal Inhibition - J. WolpeMoving beyond Cognitive Behaviour Therapy - Paul GilbertHeinz Kohut and Carl Rogers: A Timely Comparison - Edwin KahnThe Origins of Attachment Theory: John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth - Inge BrethertonTechnologies of the Self - Michel FoucaultThe "Third Wave" Behavior Therapies in Context - Brandon GaudianoThe Depression Report: A New Deal for Depression and Anxiety Disorders - Lord Layard et al.The Effects of Psychotherapy: Negative Results Revisited - Allen BerginNegative Effects from Psychological Treatments: A Perspective - David BarlowHow to Define, Find and Classify Side Effects in Psychotherapy: From Unwanted Events to Adverse Treatment Reactions - Michael LindenVOLUME FOUR: THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF COMMON MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMSSocioeconomic Inequalities in Depression: A Meta-Analysis - V. Lorant, D. Dellège, W. Eaton, A. Robert, P. Phillppot and M. AnsseauSocial Inequalities in Depressive Symptoms and Physical Functioning in the Whitehall II Study: Exploring a Common Cause Explanation - S. Stansfeld, J. Head, R. Fuhrer, J. Wardle and V. CattellPsychosocial Work Environment and Mental Health – A Meta-analytic Review - Stephen Stansfeld and Bridget CandyPoverty, Unemployment and Common Mental Health Disorders: Population Based Cohort Study - Scott Weich and Glyn LewisDebt and Depression: Causal Links and Social Norm Effects - John GathergoodJob Insecurity and Psychological Well-Being: Review of the Literature and Exploration of Some Unresolved Issues - Hans De WitteArea, Class and Health: Should We Be Focusing on Places or People? - Sally Macintyre, Sheila Maciver and Anne SoomanLoss, Humiliation and Entrapment among Women Developing Depression: A Patient and Non-Patient Comparison - G.W. Brown, T.O. Harris and C. HepworthGender and Depression in Men - Michael AddisRacism, Psychosis and Common Mental Disorder among Ethnic Minority Groups in England - Saffron Karlsen, James Nazroo, Kwame McKenzie, Kamaldeep Bhui and Scott WeichSocial Origins of Depression in Old Age - Elaine MurphyExposure to Community Violence and Social Support as Predictors of Anxiety and Social and Emotional Behavior among African American Children - Hope Hill, Monique Levermore, James Twaite and Lauren JonesConceptual, Methodological, and Theoretical Problems in Studying Social Support as a Buffer against Life Stress - Peggy ThoitsSocial Ties and Mental Health - Ichiro Kawachi and Lisa BerkmanCapital and Mental Health: A Multilevel Analysis - Tsuyoshi Hamano, Yoshikazu Fujisawa, Yu Ishida, S.V. Subramanian, Ichiro Kawachi and Kuninori Shiwaku

David Pilgrim is Honorary Professor of Health and Social Policy, University of Liverpool, UK and Visiting Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of Southampton. After training and working as a clinical psychologist he completed a PhD examining psychotherapy in the organisational setting of the British NHS. He then went on to complete a Master’s in sociology. He has worked at the boundary between clinical psychology and medical sociology for the past 20 years and has produced over 60 articles in peer-reviewed journals, based upon his research into mental health policy and practice. His years working in the British NHS provided him with extensive everyday experience of the theoretical and policy aspects of mental health expressed in practical settings. One of his books, A Sociology of Mental Health and Illness (3rd edition, Open University Press, 2005), co-authored with Anne Rogers, won the British Medical Association’s medical book of the year award for 2006. Currently he is writing a book on child sexual abuse and public policy.

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• VOLUME ONE: MISERY ACROSS TIME AND PLACEMelancholia and Depression during the 19th Century: A Conceptual History - G.E. BerriosNeurosis, Psychodynamics and DSM-III: A History of the Controversy - R. Bayer and R. SpitzerDSM-III and the Transformation of American Psychiatry: A History - Mitchell WilsonA Comparison of DSM-IV and DSM-5 Panel Members’ Financial Associations with Industry: A Pernicious Problem Persists - Lisa Cosgrove and Sheldon KrimskyGrand Challenges in Global Mental Health - Pamela Collins, Vikram Patel, Sarah Joestl, Dana March, Thomas Insel and Abdallah DaarSelfhood and Identity in Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and Hinduism: Contrasts with the West - David HoMaps, Models and Narratives: The Ways People Talk about Depression - Renata Kokanovic, Ella Butler, Hariz Halilovich, Victoria Palmer, Frances Griffiths, Christopher Dowrick and Jane GunnCulture, Relativism and the Expression of Mental Distress: South Asian Women in Britain - Steve Fenton and Azra Sadiq-SangsterCulture and Mental Health: An Overview - A. MarsellaUniversal Mental Health: Re-Evaluating the Call for Global Mental Health - Anindya Das and Mohan RaoDevelopment, Freedom, and Rising Happiness: A Global Perspective (1981–2007) - Ronald Inglehart, Roberto Foa, Christopher Peterson and Christian WelzelThe Tavistock Programme: The Government of Subjectivity and Social Life - Peter Miller and Nikolas RoseDepression and Mental Health in Neoliberal Times: A Critical Analysis of Policy and Discourse - Katherine TeghtsoonianDepressive Disorders in Europe: Prevalence Figures from the ODIN Study - J.L. Ayuso-Mateos et al.Global Burden of Depression: The Intersection of Culture and Medicine - Jan Scott and Barbara DickeyShould Uncomplicated Bereavement-related Depression Be Reclassified as a Disorder in DSM-5? - Jerome WakefieldVOLUME TWO: MEDICAL APPROACHES TO COMMON MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMSNeurosis Divisible? - P. TyrerThe Failure of Diagnostic Psychiatry and Some Prospects of Scientific Progress Offered by Critical Realism - David PilgrimThe Medicalisation of Misery: A Critical Realist Analysis of the Concept of Depression - David Pilgrim and Richard BentallThe Uses of Naming and the Origin of the Myth of Mental Illness - Thomas SzaszPrevalence, Severity and Comorbidity of Twelve-month DSM-IV Disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication (NCSR) - Ronald Kessler, Wai Tat Chiu, Olga Demler and Ellen WaltersAn Inventory for Measuring Depression - A.T. Beck et al.The Structure of the Genetic and Environmental Risk Factors for Six Major Psychiatric Disorders in Women: Phobia, Generalized Anxiety Disorder, Panic Disorder, Bulimia, Major Depression, and Alcoholism - Kenneth Kendler, Ellen Walters, Michael Neale, Ronald Kessler, Andrew Heath and Lindon EavesResearch into Putative Biological Mechanisms of Mental Disorders Has Been of No Value to Clinical Psychiatry - David Kingdon and Allan YoungExperiencing Depression, Experiencing the Depressed: The Separate Worlds of Patients and Doctors - Anne Rogers, Carl May and Dianne OliverInitial Severity and Antidepressant Benefits: A Meta-analysis of Data Submitted to the Food and Drug Administration - Irving Kirsch, Brett Deacon, Tania Huedo-Medina, Alan Scoboria, Thomas Moore and Blair JohnsonMedicalising Unhappiness: New Classification of Depression Risks More Patients Being Put on Drug Treatment from Which They Will Not Benefit - Christopher Dowrick and Allen FrancesAnatomy of an Epidemic: Psychiatric Drugs and the Astonishing Rise of Mental Illness in America - Robert WhitakerWhat Is the Relationship between Diabetes and Depression? A Qualitative Meta-Synthesis of Patient Experience of Co-Morbidity - Linda Gask, Wendy Macdonald and Peter BowerShould Global Burden of Disease Estimates Include Depression as a Risk Factor for Coronary Heart Disease? - Fiona Charlson, Nicholas Stapelberg, Amanda Baxter and Harvey WhitefordThe Association between Emotional Wellbeing and the Incidence of Stroke in Older Adults - Glenn Oster et al.VOLUME THREE: PSYCHOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO COMMON MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMSMourning and Melancholia Revisited: Correspondences between Principles of Freudian Metapsychology and Empirical Findings in Neuropsychiatry - Robin Carhart-Harris, Helen Mayberg, Andrea Malizia and David NuttThe Centrality of Personal Relationships in the Creation and Amelioration of Mental Health Problems: The Current Interdisciplinary Case - David Pilgrim, Anne Rogers and Richard BentallMother-infant Separation in Monkeys - Billy Seay, Ernst Hansen and Harry HarlowPsychopathology in a Large Cohort of Sexually Abused Children Followed up to 43 Years - Margaret Cutajar, Paul Mullen, James Ogloff, Stuart Thomas, David Wells and Josie Spataro‘When Strangers Meet’: John Bowlby and Harry Harlow on Attachment Behaviour - Frank van Der Horst, Helen LeRoy and René van der VeerExperimental Neuroses - Ivan PavlovConcerning Human and Animal Neuroses - Ivan PavlovA Dynamic Theory of Anxiety and Hysteria - H. EysenckConditioned Emotional Reactions - John Watson and Rosalie RaynorPsychotherapy by Reciprocal Inhibition - J. WolpeMoving beyond Cognitive Behaviour Therapy - Paul GilbertHeinz Kohut and Carl Rogers: A Timely Comparison - Edwin KahnThe Origins of Attachment Theory: John Bowlby and Mary Ainsworth - Inge BrethertonTechnologies of the Self - Michel FoucaultThe "Third Wave" Behavior Therapies in Context - Brandon GaudianoThe Depression Report: A New Deal for Depression and Anxiety Disorders - Lord Layard et al.The Effects of Psychotherapy: Negative Results Revisited - Allen BerginNegative Effects from Psychological Treatments: A Perspective - David BarlowHow to Define, Find and Classify Side Effects in Psychotherapy: From Unwanted Events to Adverse Treatment Reactions - Michael LindenVOLUME FOUR: THE SOCIAL CONTEXT OF COMMON MENTAL HEALTH PROBLEMSSocioeconomic Inequalities in Depression: A Meta-Analysis - V. Lorant, D. Dellège, W. Eaton, A. Robert, P. Phillppot and M. AnsseauSocial Inequalities in Depressive Symptoms and Physical Functioning in the Whitehall II Study: Exploring a Common Cause Explanation - S. Stansfeld, J. Head, R. Fuhrer, J. Wardle and V. CattellPsychosocial Work Environment and Mental Health – A Meta-analytic Review - Stephen Stansfeld and Bridget CandyPoverty, Unemployment and Common Mental Health Disorders: Population Based Cohort Study - Scott Weich and Glyn LewisDebt and Depression: Causal Links and Social Norm Effects - John GathergoodJob Insecurity and Psychological Well-Being: Review of the Literature and Exploration of Some Unresolved Issues - Hans De WitteArea, Class and Health: Should We Be Focusing on Places or People? - Sally Macintyre, Sheila Maciver and Anne SoomanLoss, Humiliation and Entrapment among Women Developing Depression: A Patient and Non-Patient Comparison - G.W. Brown, T.O. Harris and C. HepworthGender and Depression in Men - Michael AddisRacism, Psychosis and Common Mental Disorder among Ethnic Minority Groups in England - Saffron Karlsen, James Nazroo, Kwame McKenzie, Kamaldeep Bhui and Scott WeichSocial Origins of Depression in Old Age - Elaine MurphyExposure to Community Violence and Social Support as Predictors of Anxiety and Social and Emotional Behavior among African American Children - Hope Hill, Monique Levermore, James Twaite and Lauren JonesConceptual, Methodological, and Theoretical Problems in Studying Social Support as a Buffer against Life Stress - Peggy ThoitsSocial Ties and Mental Health - Ichiro Kawachi and Lisa BerkmanCapital and Mental Health: A Multilevel Analysis - Tsuyoshi Hamano, Yoshikazu Fujisawa, Yu Ishida, S.V. Subramanian, Ichiro Kawachi and Kuninori Shiwaku