The authors wish to acknowledge the support of the Association for the Improvement of Mental Health Programmes. We also wish to thank Mrs Josette Mamboury (who sadly passed away before publication) and Mrs Lydia Kurk for their assistance. We are very grateful to Jane Smith, who made superb editorial contributions to this book as it reached its final stages, as well as to Kevin Dunn, who ably copy-edited the manuscript once it had been submitted to Wiley-Blackwell. Felicity Callard and Graham Thornicroft acknowledge financial support from the National Institute for Health Research (NIHR) Specialist Biomedical Research Centre for Mental Health award to the South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. Felicity Callard thanks Constantina Papoulias for her advice, as well as her critical engagement with the book’s substantive issues. She also thanks Lynne Friedli and Oliver Lewis for inspiration as regards the role that legislative and policy transformation can have in improving the lives of people with mental health problems.