This brief book introduces the ways in which contemporary anthropology engages with the "psych" disciplines psychology psychiatry & medicine Khan also widens the conversation by including the perspectives of epidemiologists addiction & legal experts journalists filmmakers activists patients & sufferers New approaches to mental illness are situated in the context of historical political psychoanalytic & postcolonial frameworks allowing readers to understand how health illness normality & abnormality are constructed & produced Using case studies from a variety of regions Khan explores what anthropologically informed psychology psychiatry & medicine can tell us about mental illness across cultures