americanization of mental illness

okay i am posting too many links to articles but did anyone see this one a few weeks back? about the americanization of mental illness? i thought it might be of interest.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/magazine/10psyche-t.html

"Widely regarded as positive, that is, in the United States. Many traditional cultures regard the self in different terms — as inseparable from your role in your kinship group, intertwined with the story of your ancestry and permeable to the spirit world. What McGruder found in Zanzibar was that families often drew strength from this more connected and less isolating idea of human nature. Their ability to maintain a low level of expressed emotion relied on these beliefs. And that level of expressed emotion in turn may be key to improving the fortunes of the schizophrenia sufferer."

i will now go on a little posting fast. i promise.

--julie