Mental health in the time of polycrisis: geopolitical determinants and modern psychiatry

Psychiatry is increasingly being practised in environments affected by geopolitical instabilities, including economic fragmentation, democratic backsliding, and widening inequities. The confluence of these phenomena contributes to what has been described as a contemporary polycrisis, encompassing synchronous disruptions that reinforce one another and threaten collective wellbeing. Nevertheless, psychiatric research and clinical work have generally remained oriented towards immediate determinants