Is there social psychiatry beyond psychiatry itself?

The contention of this review is to stress that from its inception psychiatry, as medicine in general, was concerned with social aspects of problems it was called upon primarily to deal with. Social psychiatry can consequently be only a variation of psychiatry in danger of laicization, to the point of becoming a 'false creed' rather than a field of consistent research. The pull, the vague 'social sciences' exert on psychiatry at this instance, could be hazardous.