How Culture Shapes Mental Health

Editorial illustration created for Georgetown University, a U.S. academic institution engaged in interdisciplinary research on society, psychology and health. The artwork explores how culture shapes emotional life, well-being and the sense of self. The inner landscape of the mind is depicted as a territory influenced by symbols, traditions and personal experience: what we feel and think is partly formed by the communities we belong to. The visual metaphor suggests that understanding mental health also means acknowledging the histories, relationships and contexts that support us