Psychiatry and Chinese History by Chiang Howard

Author:Chiang, Howard
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Publisher: National Book Network International

these two subjects had hardly been taught in Central and South China; neurology only very briefly in connection with internal medicine, psychiatry [was] not at all included in the medical curriculum. Nowhere in Central China was there a psychiatric division or a hospital for the insane. Psychiatric patients were held, without any treatment, in an asylum in the old ‘Chinatown’ of Shanghai (St. Joseph's Asylum), the restless cases lying on the floor by the means of iron wristbands and chains fastened to the walls. Numerous mentally ill people lived in private apartments together with their relatives and children. Psychiatric nursing, psychiatric hygiene, psychotherapy and so forth [were] unknown terms.8

Hart Westbrook of the University of Shanghai, in a letter to Professor Gesell of Yale, described Halpern:

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