Bendell, Editor in Chief Peter Walton, Associate Editor Key Bird, Assistant Editor The images on the inside covers are meant to suggest the cultural, historical, and scientific con- tributions to the mental health field and to point to the significance of mental health in our so- ciety and globally. [...] I trust that the wisdom and experience of the contributors will inspire, inform, and validate the efforts of so many who are working to find ways to relieve mental ill health and suffering in the most diverse of social and economic contexts. [...] These include the epidemiology of mental illness preced- ing, during, and following the earliest stages of the COVID-19 pandemic, and the mental health and social disparities associated with poverty, racism, coloniality, and indigeneity, as well as their contributions to society-wide, and even global, morbidity and mortality. [...] A social medicine perspective also alerts us to other potential pitfalls in the field of mental health, as they relate to the unintended consequences of our interventions and treatments, and the various manifestations of biopower–from the history of white supremacy in the United States and its ex- pression in policy, knowledge, and practice, to the role of psychiatric institutions and prisons in a. [...] However, mental health ranges across a large spectrum, and far less attention has been given to the antecedents and consequences of states of emotional well-being at the healthiest end of the mental health spectrum.27 This perspective is highly congruent with the World Health Organization’s definition of health as “a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absen.
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