Synopses & Reviews
Synopsis
A brief political, social, cultural and economic history of China.- Psychiatry in Republican China.- Psychiatric Services in Early 20th Century China.- Psychiatry in Hong Kong during the Britishperiod and post-handover.- Mental health and psychiatry during the Mao era, 1949-1976.- Mental health and psychiatry during the reform era, c1977-2012.- The Positives and Negatives of the Era from c1980 to the Implementation of the 2013 Mental Health Law.- Mental Health Law and Policy, Human Rights and Sustainable Development.- TCM treatments and Chinese conceptions of the body-mind relationship; how they differ from Western conceptions and those of biomedicine that incorporates those conceptions.- On the speed of cultural, social and economic change and the rise of the "therapeutic" response in contemporary China".- The contribution of the global mental health movement and overseas psychiatrists to the recent effort to advance mental health and improve the mental health system.- From the Kerr Asylum to the Guanzhou Brain Hospital.- Historical overview of the establishment of Chinese communities in Southeast Asia and the Pacific.- Mental health of the Chinese in Indonesia.- Mental health of the Chinese in Malaysia.- Mental health of the Chinese in the Philippines.- Mental health of the Chinese in Australia.- Mental health of Chinese International Students.