Mental health in China

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Contents 1 History 2 Current 3 References 4 Further reading 5 See also

[edit] History

China's first mental institutions were introduced before 1949 by Western missionaries. After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, the treatment model was indigenized during 1949-1963. During the Cultural Revolution (1964-1976) strong political control governed diagnosis and treatment as well as detention and discharge of mental patients. Later, due to the modernization and reform advocated by Deng Xiaoping, western models of treatment and rehabilitation were gradually introduced by psychiatrists.

[edit] Current

Currently, dilemmas such as human rights versus political control, community integration versus community control, diversity versus centrally, huge demand but inadequate services seem to challenge the further development of the mental health service in the PRC.

China has 17,000 certified psychologists, which is ten percent of that of other developed countries per capita.^[1] Some 100 million Chinese have mental illnesses, with varying degrees of intensity.^[1]

[edit] References

[edit] Further reading

• Normal and Abnormal Behavior in Chinese Culture (1981) edited by Arthur Kleinman and Tsung-yi Lin
• Chinese Societies and Mental Health (1995) edited by Tsung-yi Lin, Wen-shing Tseng, and Eng-kung Yeh
• Narcotic Culture - A History of Drugs in China (2004) by Frank Dikötter, Lars Laamann and Zhou Xun

[edit] See also

• Chinese Society of Psychiatry

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