ABSTRACT
In recent years psychiatric theory has been moving in a direction that sheds some light on this problem. Individual personality development takes place at the core of a series of concentric, interacting spheres of influence beginning with the nuclear family, and extending outward to include the community, the nation, and the world. he effects of poverty, disease, physical trauma, and environmental pollution continue to be operative when the infant completes the gestational period and emerges into the outer world. Ethical systems are outgrowths of the needs, aspirations, and circumstances of the societies in which they have developed. Psychiatry has been characterized by its willingness to question established mores when it found that they were interfering with optimum mental health and human self-realization.
