Mental Health in Modern E Asia
Mental Health in Modern East Asia In this course we will learn about ways that mental health has been understood and addressed in East Asia from the 1700s to the present. In the first part of the course, will consider premodern literary and social ideas of health, disease, mind, and body. In the second, we will learn about the transformative effects of Euro-American and Japanese imperialisms, focusing on the new roles of psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and state welfare systems in shaping ideas about mental health. In the final part, we will consider contemporary trends of diagnosis and care. Topics include traumas of total and atomic warfare; psychiatry under Maoism; and challenges of translating mental health discourses across socio-cultural contexts.
Mental Health in Modern East Asia In this course we will learn about ways that mental health has been understood and addressed in East Asia from the 1700s to the present. In the first part of the course, will consider premodern literary and social ideas of health, disease, mind, and body. In the second, we will learn about the transformative effects of Euro-American and Japanese imperialisms, focusing on the new roles of psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and state welfare systems in shaping ideas about mental health. In the final part, we will consider contemporary trends of diagnosis and care. Topi …Read more