>> Well Coursera, we have covered a lot of ground. Culture, mental health, mental illness, indigenous, traditional, universal, what else? Idioms of distress, cultural formulations, culture bound syndromes, in pre-list agendas, it was a lot of ground. [laugh] It was a lot of ground. This is a really interesting area to me how culture interplays with mental health. And the thing is, it's still largely defined by an understanding of culture that's rooted in ethnicity and nationality. There's so much more work to be done and work that is being done in terms of thinking about culture, mental health, mental illness, and cultural competence, as it relates to other types of culture. The kind of culture that's associated with gender. The kind of culture that's associated with sexuality. The kind of culture that's associated with education, socioeconomic status, so many things. We're all really complex individuals and we all represent many different cultures at the same time. And these have implications for the way that we think about mental health, the way we deal with mental illness, the ways that we stay mentally healthy. So, I hope you got a sense of that from this lecture. So next week, we are going to be talking about families and mental health, and mental illness. This is a very interesting area. [laugh] That's the word I'll use. Interesting. Because a lot of the work that I do around families and mental illness has to do with care giving. So that's certainly what we're going to talk about. It's going to be part of what we talk about. But I know in the forums that there has been some discussion about how families are intertwined with the experience of mental illness. And, that is a difficult topic because psychiatry and mental health has had an unfortunate history of really blaming families when it came to mental illness. And, you know, in this regard, I think the mother has got it especially hard because so many of these theories talked about what mothers didn't do and how that caused mental illness. So, I've decided that I am going to talk about that next week. I'm not entirely sure how I'm going to take it on, but its out there, I've seen it in the discussion forums, we'll see what we can do. [laugh] And, and certainly, of course, I'm going to talk about the care giving experience. I know there are lot of family members in this course. And I hope that I will get to hear from you guys in response to that lecture, and I hope, and I have seen that you're talking with each other. And it's been great to see that interraction. So, I'll see you next week.
