Forbes June 2, 2023
When anthropologist Ruth Benedict wrote her seminal work Patterns in Culture published in 1934, she set out to explore the idea that culture is linked to our changing actions writing “If we are interested in cultural processes, the only way in which we can know the significance of the selected detail of behavior is against the background of the motives and emotions and values that are institutionalized in that culture.” The same can be said for our understanding of the role of mental health within the broader culture and how a cottage industry is evolving into big business.
We must look beyond the more cerebral fields of psychotherapy and psychiatry to how the commercialization of mental health has been developed...
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