In this article, Sanah Ahsan talks about how society’s understanding of mental health issues locates the problem inside the person – and ignores the politics of their distress. "The UK could learn a lot from liberation psychology. Founded in the 1980s by the Salvadorian activist and psychologist Ignacio Martín Baró, it argues that we cannot isolate “mental health problems” from our broader societal structures. Suffering emerges within people’s experiences and histories of oppression."