Abstract
Abstract A critical issue for the field is how to define contemporary social psychiatry for the present day. This chapter addresses this definitional task by breaking it down into three major questions for social psychiatry: (1) What is social about psychiatry? The chapter addresses definitional problems that arise, such as binary thinking, and the need for a common language. (2) What are the theory and practice of social psychiatry? Issues include social psychiatry’s core principles, values, and operational criteria; the social determinants of health and the Global Mental Health Movement; and the need for translational research. This part of the review establishes the minimal criteria for a coherent theory of social psychiatry and the view of persons that emerges from such a theory: the social self. (3) Why has the time come for a manifesto for social psychiatry? The author outlines the parameters for a theory of social psychiatry, based on both the social self and the social determinants of health, to offer an inclusive social definition of health, concluding with a call for action, a manifesto for 21st-century social psychiatry.
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