Psychiatry and Chinese History

Psychiatry and Chinese History
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 294
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ISBN-10 : 9781317318880
ISBN-13 : 1317318889
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Synopsis Psychiatry and Chinese History by : Howard Chiang

This collection examines psychiatric medicine in China across the early modern and modern periods. Essays focus on the diagnosis, treatment and cultural implications of madness and mental illness and explore the complex trajectory of the medicalization of the mind in shifting political contexts of Chinese history.

The Invention of Madness

The Invention of Madness
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Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Total Pages : 281
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ISBN-10 : 9780226558240
ISBN-13 : 022655824X
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Synopsis The Invention of Madness by : Emily Baum

Throughout most of history, in China the insane were kept within the home and treated by healers who claimed no specialized knowledge of their condition. In the first decade of the twentieth century, however, psychiatric ideas and institutions began to influence longstanding beliefs about the proper treatment for the mentally ill. In The Invention of Madness, Emily Baum traces a genealogy of insanity from the turn of the century to the onset of war with Japan in 1937, revealing the complex and convoluted ways in which “madness” was transformed in the Chinese imagination into “mental illness.” ​ Focusing on typically marginalized historical actors, including municipal functionaries and the urban poor, The Invention of Madness shifts our attention from the elite desire for modern medical care to the ways in which psychiatric discourses were implemented and redeployed in the midst of everyday life. New meanings and practices of madness, Baum argues, were not just imposed on the Beijing public but continuously invented by a range of people in ways that reflected their own needs and interests. Exhaustively researched and theoretically informed, The Invention of Madness is an innovative contribution to medical history, urban studies, and the social history of twentieth-century China.

Mental Health in China and the Chinese Diaspora: Historical and Cultural Perspectives

Mental Health in China and the Chinese Diaspora: Historical and Cultural Perspectives
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Publisher : Springer Nature
Total Pages : 251
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ISBN-10 : 9783030651619
ISBN-13 : 3030651614
Rating : 4/5 (19 Downloads)

Synopsis Mental Health in China and the Chinese Diaspora: Historical and Cultural Perspectives by : Harry Minas

Following on the previous volume, Mental Health in Asia and the Pacific, which was co-edited with Milton Lewis, this book explores historical and contemporary developments in mental health in China and Chinese immigrant populations. It presents the development of mental health policies and services from the 19th Century until the present time, offering a clear view of the antecedents of today’s policies and practice. Chapters focus on traditional Chinese conceptions of mental illness, the development of the Chinese mental health system through the massive political, social, cultural and economic transformations in China from the late 19th Century to the present, and the mental health of Chinese immigrants in several countries with large Chinese populations. China’s international political and economic influence and its capabilities in mental health science and innovation have grown rapidly in recent decades. So has China’s engagement in international institutions, and in global economic and health development activities. Chinese immigrant communities are to be found in almost all countries all around the world. Readers of this book will gain an understanding of how historical, cultural, economic, social, and political contexts have influenced the development of mental health law, policies and services in China and how these contexts in migrant receiving countries shape the mental health of Chinese immigrants.

Mental Health in China

Mental Health in China
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Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages : 262
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ISBN-10 : 9781509502998
ISBN-13 : 1509502998
Rating : 4/5 (98 Downloads)

Synopsis Mental Health in China by : Jie Yang

China's massive economic restructuring in recent decades has generated alarming incidences of mental disorder affecting over one hundred million people. This timely book provides an anthropological analysis of mental health in China through an exploration of psychology, psychiatry, psychotherapy and psychosocial practices, and the role of the State. The book offers a critical study of new characteristics and unique practices of Chinese psychology and cultural tradition, highlighting the embodied, holistic, heart-based approach to mental health. Drawing together voices from her own research and a broad range of theory, Jie Yang addresses the mental health of a diverse array of people, including members of China's elite, the middle class and underprivileged groups. She argues that the Chinese government aligns psychology with the imperatives and interests of state and market, mobilizing concepts of mental illness to resolve social, moral, economic, and political disorders while legitimating the continued rule of the party through psychological care and permissive empathy. This thoughtful analysis will appeal to those across the social sciences and humanities interested in well-being in China and the intersection of society, politics, culture, and mental health.

Chinese Medical Psychiatry

Chinese Medical Psychiatry
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Publisher : Blue Poppy Enterprises, Inc.
Total Pages : 518
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ISBN-10 : UCLA:L0083542175
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Rating : 4/5 (75 Downloads)

Synopsis Chinese Medical Psychiatry by : Bob Flaws

This book discusses the disease causes and mechanisms, pattern discrimination, treatment principles, and Chinese medical treatmnet of more than 20 traditional Chinese psychiatric diseases as well as the same information on 12 modern Western psychiatric disorders. Each chapter dealing with either a traditional or modern disease category also includes extensive information on the Western medical nosology, etiology, differential diagnosis, pathophysiology, epidemiology, treatment, side effects, and criteria for referral written by a Western psychiatrist. There are also abstracts of recent Chinese and Western research as well as multiple case histories.

Breathing Spaces

Breathing Spaces
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Publisher : Columbia University Press
Total Pages : 257
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ISBN-10 : 9780231128056
ISBN-13 : 0231128053
Rating : 4/5 (56 Downloads)

Synopsis Breathing Spaces by : Nancy N. Chen

The charismatic form of healing called qigong, which at its core involves meditative breathing exercises, achieved enormous popularity in China during the last two decades. Anthropologist Nancy N. Chen examines the cultural context of medicine and healing practices in the PRC, Taiwan, and the United States, and the pages of her book come alive with the narratives of the numerous practitioners, healers, psychiatric patients, doctors, and bureaucrats she interviewed.

Normal and Abnormal Behavior in Chinese Culture

Normal and Abnormal Behavior in Chinese Culture
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 470
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ISBN-10 : 9027711046
ISBN-13 : 9789027711045
Rating : 4/5 (46 Downloads)

Synopsis Normal and Abnormal Behavior in Chinese Culture by : A. Kleinman

Our purpose in assembling the papers in this collection is to introduce readers to studies of normal and abnormal behavior in Chinese culture. We want to offer a sense o/what psychiatrists and social scientists are doing to advance our under standing of this subject, including what fmdings are being made, what questions researched, what conundrums worried over. Since our fund of knowledge is obviously incomplete, we want our readers to be aware of the limits to what we know and to our acquisition of new knowledge. Although the subject is too vast and uncharted to support a comprehensive synthesis, in a few areas - e. g. , psychiatric epidemiology - enough is known for us to be able to present major reviews. The chapters themselves cover a variety of themes that we regard as both intrinsically interesting and deserving of more systematic evaluation. Many of the issues they address we believe to be valid concerns for comparative cross cultural studies. No attempt is made to artificially integrate these chapters, since the editors wish to highlight their distinctive interpretive frameworks as evidence of the rich variety of approaches that scholars take to this subject. 'We see this volume as a modest and self-consciously limited exploration. Here are some accounts and interpretations (but by no means all) of normal and ab normal behavior in the context of Chinese culture that we believe fashion a more discriminating understanding of at least a few important aspects of that subject.

Psychiatry and Chinese History

Psychiatry and Chinese History
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Publisher : Routledge
Total Pages : 0
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ISBN-10 : 1032923490
ISBN-13 : 9781032923499
Rating : 4/5 (90 Downloads)

Synopsis Psychiatry and Chinese History by : Howard Chiang

This collection examines psychiatric medicine in China across the early modern and modern periods. Essays focus on the diagnosis, treatment and cultural implications of madness and mental illness and explore the complex trajectory of the medicalization of the mind in shifting political contexts of Chinese history.

China's Psychiatric Inquisition

China's Psychiatric Inquisition
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Publisher : Wildy, Simmonds & Hill Publishing
Total Pages : 366
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ISBN-10 : 1898029857
ISBN-13 : 9781898029854
Rating : 4/5 (57 Downloads)

Synopsis China's Psychiatric Inquisition by : Robin Munro

This study examines the misuse of forensic psychiatry custody in China since the late 1950s as an adjunct means – alongside the legal authorities’ more frequent use of arrest, trial and imprisonment – of punishing and silencing political dissidents, spiritual nonconformists, whistleblowers and other critics of official corruption or malfeasance. The principal questions addressed in the book are: how common have such practices been in China during the successive main periods in the country’s post-1949 history; how have these repressive practices been theorized and handled under the country’s evolving criminal justice system; and why have the security authorities resorted to this, at first sight, uncharacteristically sophisticated form of state repression? On the basis of extensive archival research into several decades of China’s legal and psychiatric literature, the study concludes that the use of psychiatric custody against dissidents and other similar groups has been more widespread in China than it was in the former Soviet Union. Series Editors: Anthony Dicks and Robin Munro

Material Cultures of Psychiatry

Material Cultures of Psychiatry
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Publisher : Transcript Verlag, Roswitha Gost, Sigrid Nokel u. Dr. Karin Werner
Total Pages : 350
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ISBN-10 : 3837647889
ISBN-13 : 9783837647884
Rating : 4/5 (89 Downloads)

Synopsis Material Cultures of Psychiatry by : Monika Ankele

In the past, our ideas on psychiatric hospitals and their history have been shaped by objects like straitjackets, cribs, and binding belts. By focusing on material cultures, this book offers a new perspective on the history of psychiatry as a complex entanglement where power is permanently negotiated.