Front Cover; Mental Health Care in Japan; Copyright Page; Contents; List of illustrations; Notes on contributors; Foreword by Graham Thornicroft; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; 1. Mental health care in Japan: an introduction: Ruth Taplin; 2. Mental health policy and services: where we stand: Hiroto Ito; 3. Reintegrating the mentally ill into society and work: Satoru Hashimoto; 4. How mental hospitals treat their patients, and programmes for rehabilitation into the community: Yayoi Imamura.
5. National Federation of Families for the Mentally Ill in Japan: historical and future perspectives: Hajime Oketani and Hiromi Akiyama6. An overview of the user movement in Britain and Japan: Sandra J. Lawman; 7. Attitudes to mental illness in Japan and Britain: Shuntaro Ando and Graham Thornicroft; Postscript: a personal perspective: sandra J. Lawman; Index.
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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 serv.