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.