Mental Health Care In Japan (routledge Contemporary Japan Series)

Mental health, including widespread depression, a high suicide rate and institutionalisation, is a major problem in Japan. At the same time, the mental health care system in Japan has historically been more restrictive than elsewhere in the world. This book looks at the challenges of mental health care in Japan, including problems such as the institutionalisation of long-term patients in mental hospitals. The book discusses the latest legislation to deal with mental health care, and explores the various ideas and practices concerning rehabilitation into the workforce, the community and service user groups that empower the mentally ill. It goes on to look at the social stigma attached to the mentally ill in Japan and Britain, which touches upon the issue of counselling those with post traumatic stress after the recent earthquake. Front Cover......Page 1 Mental Health Care in Japan......Page 6 Copyright Page......Page 7 Contents......Page 8 List of illustrations......Page 9 Notes on contributors......Page 11 Foreword by Graham Thornicroft......Page 15 List of abbreviations......Page 18 Acknowledgements......Page 17 1. Mental health care in Japan: an introduction: Ruth Taplin......Page 19 2. Mental health policy and services: where we stand: Hiroto Ito......Page 54 3. Reintegrating the mentally ill into society and work: Satoru Hashimoto......Page 75 4. How mental hospitals treat their patients, and programmes for rehabilitation into the community: Yayoi Imamura......Page 91 5. National Federation of Families for the Mentally Ill in Japan: historical and future perspectives: Hajime Oketani and Hiromi Akiyama......Page 101 6. An overview of the user movement in Britain and Japan: Sandra J. Lawman......Page 116 7. Attitudes to mental illness in Japan and Britain: Shuntaro Ando and Graham Thornicroft......Page 131 Postscript: a personal perspective: sandra J. Lawman ......Page 160 Index......Page 161