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Social psychiatry is a branch of psychiatry, focusing on links between social, environmental factors and mental disorders. The discipline put much emphasis on the occurrence, development and prognosis influence by societal, cultural as well as ecological environment. The community psychiatry closely connected with it focus on the discovery, prevention, early intervention and rehabilitation of mental illness in the community, and providing coordinated mental health care service to specified population. Social psychiatry acknowledge the effects of social culture and inter-personal relationship on mental wellbeing and mental disorders, adopting theory and approaches adapted from social anthropology, social psychology, cultural psychiatry, sociology in the medical education/training. All these disciplines are related to mental health issues. Social psychiatry is especially connected with the progress of therapeutic communities, claiming the socioeconomic factors influencing psychoses.
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