World Health Report

The 2001 World Health Report states: “Mental disorders are not the exclusive preserve of any social group; they are truly universal. Mental and behavioural disorders are found in people of all regions, all countries and all societies” (WHO 2001, 23).

The universality of disease is in this case sustained by a universal neurobiology, which justifies introducing in different cultural contexts transcultural intervention packages and modes of diagnosis while at the same time acknowledging variation at the level of the expression and triggers of psychopathology (Cohen, Patel, and Minas 2014; Patel 2012; WHO 2013).

Vidal, Fernando and Ortega, Francisco. Being Brains: Making the Cerebral Subject (Forms of Living)....

The World Health Report 2001