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The socio-cultural significance of the diagnostic label "neurasthenia" in Japan's mental health care system.
- Source :
- Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry; Jun1989, Vol. 13 Issue 2, p203-213, 11p
- Publication Year :
- 1989
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Abstract
- This paper is an attempt to explore the socio-cultural significance of deliberately disguising schizophrenia as neurasthenia, neurosis or malfunction of autonomic nervous system. To understand its significance, the socio-cultural background of Japanese attitudes toward mental illness and Japan's mental health care system is also examined from a non-Western standpoint. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- DIAGNOSIS of mental depression
DIAGNOSIS of schizophrenia
SOMATOFORM disorders
ANXIETY disorders
PSYCHOSOMATIC disorders
ATTITUDE (Psychology)
COMPARATIVE studies
RESEARCH methodology
MEDICAL cooperation
PHYSICIAN-patient relations
RESEARCH
PSYCHOLOGY of the sick
SOCIAL values
ETHNOLOGY research
EVALUATION research
SOCIAL context
DIAGNOSIS
PSYCHOLOGY
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0165005X
- Volume :
- 13
- Issue :
- 2
- Database :
- Complementary Index
- Journal :
- Culture, Medicine & Psychiatry
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 71423154
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02220662