Revisioning Psychiatry: Cultural Phenomenology, Critical Neuroscience, and Global Mental Health

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The concept of mental illness in the West is largely shaped by the DSM diagnostic model. The DSM categorization of psychiatric disorders has been useful in driving research, and psychiatric neuroscience has made enormous strides in identifying some of the brain-based factors that contribute to mental disorders such as autism, schizophrenia, and bipolar disorder, as well as suggesting possible drug therapies.

Both neuroscientists and anthropologists have raised questions, however, about the validity and utility of these categories.

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