The question posed in the present paper arises from the relationship of psychiatric disorder to culture. This question is: Do we have in Egypt mental sicknesses which are the specific production of the Egyptian cultural setting? After a careful review of the literature supplemented by his own anthropological observations and Egyptian psychiatric reports, the author was able to conclude that the psychopathological manifestations expressed in the RABT and ZAR cult phenomena which reflect in their behaviour the specific cultural content of the victim's society, are simply local varieties of a common disease process to which human beings, as such, are vulnerable.