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China news tagged with: psychiatry (3)

• Video: Chinese Dissidents Committed to Mental Hospitals

  

  The PBS Newshour reports on political dissidents and petitioners in China who are sentenced to psychiatric hospitals:
  

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  • September 13, 2009 11:01 AM

• Mao Meets Freud: Stressed Chinese Seek Help in Western Therapy

  

  New stresses faced by Chinese citizens are causing a rise in demand for psychotherapy-related services, according to Bloomberg:

  In the past 30 years, China’s Communist system of government-assigned jobs and apartments has become a capitalist free-for-all with cutthroat competition for education and work and a widening gap between rich and poor. To cope with the stress, some people are turning to a Western tool: psychotherapy. It’s a radical shift in a nation where focus on the individual was discouraged by both socialist ideology and traditional culture.

  “There are great changes happening in Chinese society, and people are more open and pay more attention to their inner mind,” says Zheng Yu, a therapist in Chengdu, about 1,500 kilometers (932 miles) southwest of Beijing.

  Mental-health problems affect about 15 percent of the population and account for 20 percent of China’s so-called disease burden — a measure of the financial and other effects of illness, according to the Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention. That compares with the World Health Organization’s estimate of 13 percent for the worldwide disease burden and may climb to 25 percent by 2020.

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  • October 22, 2008 1:27 PM

• Mai Dong: China needs more soul savers

  

  From China Daily Online:

  During on-line conversations with members of the public, Zhu Rongxian, deputy of the Chinese People’s Political Consultative Conference, said 16 million Chinese belong to the “melancholia” group. She put them into three groups – the aged living in endless loneliness, young people tortured by heavy pressure from work or school, and married people constantly in fear of their partners straying.

  There are too few psychologists in China to deal with these broken hearts and pining minds. One expert speaking at the Third Annual Meeting of Psychiatry and Psychological Consulting in the United States said there were 550 psychologists and psychiatrists to 1 million people in the USA – yet in China, there were no more than five.

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  • May 21, 2005 5:23 AM

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