Social Psychiatry is Concerned Fundamentally with the interrelationships between the sociocultural environment and the individual. While recognizing the contribution of heredity, physiology, and psychodynamic factors to the individual’s per-sonality and psychopathology, it focuses attention upon the impact of human environment on the individual and the effect of the individual on the environment. It is also concerned with the way in which environment affects form, distribution, frequency, treatment, management, and perpetuation of psychiatric disorders. It pursues these questions with the strategies and tools of such diverse disciplines as anthropology, sociology, social psychology, and epidemiology.