Abstract
In parallel with more open political access for Westerners to China over the last decade, there has been a proliferation of interest in Chinese psychiatry. The pre- and post-liberation developments of the specialty have been reviewed. Further, increasingly detailed and balanced first-hand accounts by Western psychiatrists of visits to Chinese facilities have appeared.
Highlights
As yet there have been few comparative studies of tation, treatment and prognosis of schizophrenia
Increasingly detailed and balanced first-hand The questionnaire items were designed by one author accounts by Western psychiatrists of visits to Chinese (GT) to cover the main ideas current within Western and facilities have appeared.4 traditional Chinese medicine on the aetiology, presen
In examining viewson the causation of schizophrenia this study has showed that Chinese respondents were signifi cantly more likely to favour physical explanations, includ ing biochemical, genetic, and infective factors
Summary
As yet there have been few comparative studies of tation, treatment and prognosis of schizophrenia. Two questions were phrased in both positive wards Chinese and Western forms of treatment have been and negative ways to test internal reliability. A recent Shanghai study has shown the content the subject chose one from six possible ordinal responses of the delusions of schizophrenic patients to be context- labelled: I strongly disagree, I disagree pretty much, I dis specific, and markedly different from classical Western agree a little, I agree a little, I agree pretty much and I urban descriptions. strongly agree. There is evidence that the Traditional Chinese nature of the enquiry and the confidential nature of the Medicine (TCM) diagnosis of schizophrenia appreciably responses. Beijing Mental Health Institute has studied 98 patients draft translations, and was back-translated to test the diagnosed as schizophrenic by TCM standards. 82 accuracy of the Chinese version. satisfied the ICD 9 requirements, and 84 satisfied the DSM Analysis of the data used first the two-tailed Student's (
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