The perception of mental illness, with its etiological mechanisms, its course, and the multiple culture-bound factors and social forces involved, is repeatedly addressed in this book. In a way, this interplay among psychopathology, normality, and clinician-patient perceptions and relationships represents both the challenge and the major contribution of this book. I very much enjoyed, for instance, the interplay of socioeconomic, political, and cultural forces represented by and/or affecting the psychotherapeutic dyad depicted in this book. It is very striking to examine the impact these very key factors in human life have on a people’s cultural identity and their view of themselves.