However, the rising number of mentally ill patient changed the scenario showing the importance of the mental illness in medical science, incorporating the mental illness in medical research. The essay will discuss the history of medical illness, community mental healthcare, evaluate the social , political, cultural and environmental influence of medical illness. The psychotherapy, proposed by Sigmund Freud is based on the psychological approach, claims that the unconscious and unresolved motives are the reason for mental illness, and should be treated with an open dialogue with the