The purpose of Liah Greenfeld's Mind, Madness and Modernity (2013) is to make evident that
*culture is an empirical reality of the first order in human life, what makes us human and defines human experience.
*madness in its new form—the big three of contemporary psychiatry—schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, major depression—was brought about by nationalism, the cultural framework of modernity, our secular, egalitarian, essentially humanistic and democratic world, insisting on the dignity and creativity of man and the value of human life. The other side of the coin, proof that benefits have costs.