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The Social Context of Psychiatric Rehabilitation in China

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 August 2018

Veronica Pearson  and
Michael R. Phillips
Veronica Pearson*
Affiliation:
University of Hong Kong
Michael R. Phillips
Affiliation:
Shashi City Veterans Psychiatric Hospital, PRC, and Harvard Medical School, USA
*
Dr V. Pearson, Department of Social Work and Social Administration, University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong
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A Western psychiatrist visiting a ward, out-patient department, or sheltered workshop in China would find much that was familiar, not only in terms of clinical syndromes and medication usage but also in the paucity of resources, problems with administrative hierarchies, and lack of status accorded by medical colleagues to psychiatry. Chinese psychiatric patients able to converse with their Western counterparts would discover that they shared much of the experience in common: stigma, problems with employment, and difficulties in finding a marital partner. Patients' relatives from East and West, likewise, would be able to recite a litany of similar concerns and complaints: the need for guidance and advice in handling disturbed behaviour at home, the gossip of neighbours, and the fear of another relapse.

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I. The Chinese Setting for Rehabilitation Services
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 165 , Issue S24: Psychiatric Rehabilitation in China , August 1994 , pp. 11 - 18
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Copyright © 1994 The Royal College of Psychiatrists 

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