This book presents a comprehensive and up-to-date examination of mental health, mental disorders, and mental health services in one of the world's most densely populated and rapidly developing countries. As Bangladesh undergoes epidemiological and social transitions, mental disorders have emerged as a major component of the country's growing burden of non-communicable diseases. Despite increasing recognition of their impact on individuals, families, and communities, significant challenges remain, including treatment gaps, stigma, limited mental health literacy, workforce shortages, inadequate funding, and barriers to access to care.

Drawing on contemporary evidence and the expertise of leading scholars and clinicians, this volume examines key issues in psychiatry, psychology, mental health policy, and community mental health services in Bangladesh. The second edition expands coverage to include social psychiatry, reproductive psychiatry, eating disorders, and disaster psychiatry, while substantially updating chapters on forensic psychiatry, suicidal behaviour, geriatric psychiatry, substance use disorders, and mental health research.

By integrating clinical, social, cultural, and public health perspectives, the book offers valuable insights into the opportunities and challenges shaping mental health care in Bangladesh. It will be an essential resource for psychiatrists, psychologists, public health professionals, social scientists, policymakers, researchers, and postgraduate students interested in global mental health, South Asian mental health systems, and community-based mental health care.

S M Yasir Arafat is Consultant of Psychiatry at Bangladesh Specialized Hospital, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He is Associate Professor of Frontier University Garowe, Somalia, an Associate Fellow of the Bangladesh Academy of Sciences, and a Senior Research Fellow of the Biomedical Research Foundation, Bangladesh.  He completed his MD in Psychiatry from Bangabandhu Sheikh Mujib Medical University, Dhaka, and his MBBS from the Dhaka Medical College, Bangladesh. He also did an MPH in Health Economics and an MBA in Marketing. Dr. Arafat has (co)authored more than 400 peer-reviewed articles and more than 50 book chapters, and (co)edited more than 20 books with Springer. He is the lead editor of the book series South Asian Perspectives in Mental Health and Psychology with Springer. He has been included in the global 2% researcher list since 2021-23. He is an editorial member of more than 10 leading journals in mental health, published by Elsevier, Wiley, Springer, Sage, and Taylor and Francis. His research focuses on mental health, suicidal behavior, psychometrics, panic buying, and psycho-sexual disorders.