Americans, particularly if they are of a certain leftward-leaning, college-educated type, worry about our country’s blunders into other cultures… For all our self-recrimination, however, we may have yet to face one of the most remarkable effects of American-led globalization. We have for many years been busily engaged in a grand project of Americanizing the world’s understanding of mental health and illness. We may indeed be far along in homogenizing the way the world goes mad.
