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An Historical Review of the Mental Health Services in the People’s Republic of China

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  • Kam-Shing Yip

    (Department of Applied Social Studies, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong, ssksyip@polyu.edu.hk)

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Background: This paper is an attempt to describe the historical development of the mental health services in the PRC. Research Methods: An archive of related literature Findings: The development of the mental health services in the PRC could be divided into several stages: the introduction of mental asylums by western missionaries before 1949; indigenization of the treatment model after the establishment of the PRC (1949-1963). Strong political control governed diagnosis and treatment as well as detention and discharge of mental patients during the Cultural Revolution (1964-1976). Later, because of modernization and reform advocated by Deng Xiao-ping, western models of treatment and rehabilitation were gradually introduced by psychiatrists in the PRC. Nevertheless, dilemmas such as human rights versus political control, community integration versus community control, diversity versus centrality, huge demand but inadequate services seemed to challenge the further development of the mental health service in the PRC.

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  • Kam-Shing Yip, 2005. "An Historical Review of the Mental Health Services in the People’s Republic of China," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 51(2), pages 106-118, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:socpsy:v:51:y:2005:i:2:p:106-118
    DOI: 10.1177/0020764005056758
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    1. Veronica Pearson, 1992. "Community and Culture: a Chinese Model of Community Care for the Mentally Ill," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 38(3), pages 163-178, September.
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    2. Ilse Blignault & Vince Ponzio & Ye Rong & Maurice Eisenbruch, 2008. "A Qualitative Study of Barriers to Mental Health Services Utilisation Among Migrants From Mainland China in South-East Sydney," International Journal of Social Psychiatry, , vol. 54(2), pages 180-190, March.

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