THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN DYNAMIC AND SOCIAL-PSYCHIATRY IN INDIA

The authors present the wide range of subjects in Indian psychiatriy. They review in detail the increasing research in questions of social p sychiatry and introduce into Indian psychoanalysis. The authors stress the influence of dynamic, social and cultural factors on psychic heal th and illness. The various results presented in this paper show basic differences between Eastern and Western psychiatry. The authors try t o explain transcultural differences in mental illness, its course and outcome, on the basis of a number of psychodynamic factors: dependence and autonomy, linguistic competence, cognitive style, material cultur e, social support and expressed emotions, as well as psychological sop histication.