The branch of psychiatry that deals with the relationship between social environment and mental illness. Social psychiatry combines a medical training and perspective with fields such as social anthropology, social psychology, cultural psychiatry, sociology and other disciplines relating to mental distress and disorder. It focuses on the interpersonal and cultural context of mental disorder and mental wellbeing.
Social Psychiatry is a branch of psychiatry that deals in collaboration with related specialties (as sociology and anthropology) with the influence of social and cultural factors on the causation, course, and outcome of mental disorder.