Neil Armstrong is a medical anthropologist. He is a Fellow of Harris Manchester College, Oxford and Research Associate at Kings College London, UK. He is also a former psychiatric patient.

1. Everybody Knows About Mental Health

2. What Does it Mean to Know About Mental Healthcare?

3. No Mental Healthcare Without Mental Healthcare Institutions

4. Bipolar: The Beautiful Opponent with Catriona Watson

5. Learning to be Ill, Learning to be Well

6. Untethered with Hugh Palmer

7. Us and Them: Why Nobody Wins with Rowan Jones

Conclusion

This book is an ethnographic exploration of mental healthcare, which uses both ethnographic research and personal co-ethnographic / co-authored narratives to show the experiences and limits of those bring treated for severe mental health issues, often in a hospital setting.