Professor Peter Huxley has made a considerable contribution to Social and Community Psychiatry. In this paper, I reflect on some aspects of social psychiatry including its importance, scope and current status, as well as contemporary thinking on the social exclusion and employment of people with mental health conditions. Central to much of the thinking in these areas are health inequalities, the social determinants of ill-health and the bidirectional relationship between social factors and mental ill-health. I leave the final words to Peter Huxley: “Psychiatry and social science both work to understand and address the consequences of social adversity and injustice, even if psychiatry is sometimes reluctant to acknowledge this

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsJed BoardmanJED BOARDMAN is visiting Senior Lecturer in Social Psychiatry at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London. Throughout his career, he has worked in social and community psychiatry and was Consultant Psychiatrist at South London and Maudsley Trust until 2016. His publications include Social Inclusion and Mental Health. Understanding Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion. Cambridge University Press, 2022.