DSM-5 on Culture: A Significant Advance

[A]ll forms of distress are locally shaped, including the DSM…

Book Review: Liah Greenfeld’s Mind, Modernity, Madness

According to Liah Greenfeld, author of Mind, Modernity, Madness, “culture is an empirical reality of the first order in human life – that it, in the most profound sense of the word makes us human and defines human experience.”

DSM-5 Recap: The “Eight Dimensions” of Psychosis

Psychiatric Times recaps changes in DSM-5 re psychotic disorders. But see also a terrific article in 2010 Nature ("The Environment and Schizophrenia") by van Os et al. for a much less reductionistic examination of environment.