Title It's madness : the politics of mental health in colonial Korea / Theodore Jun Yoo

Published Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2016] ©2016

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Contents Forms of madness -- Madness is ... -- A touch of madness: the cultural politics of emotion -- Madness as a social epidemic -- Conclusion: a method to the madness Summary "It's Madness examines Korea's critical years under Japanese colonialism when mental health first became defined as a medical and social problem. As in most Asian countries, severe social ostracism, shame, and fear of jeopardizing marriage prospects drove most Korean families to conceal the mentally ill behind closed doors. This book explores the impact of Chinese traditional medicine and its holistic approach to treating mental disorders, the resilience of folk illnesses as explanations for inappropriate and dangerous behaviors, the emergence of clinical psychiatry as a discipline, and the competing models of care under the Japanese colonial authorities and Western missionary doctors. It also analyzes interpretations of culture-bound emotional states that Koreans have viewed as specific to their interpersonal relationships, social experiences, local contexts, and the new medical discourses that the Korean press adopted to reshape social understandings of mental illness. Drawing upon unpublished archival as well as printed sources, this is the first study to examine the ways in which "madness" has been understood, classified, and treated in traditional Korea and the role of science in pathologizing and redefining mental illness under Japanese colonial rule"--Provided by publisher Analysis asian treatment of mental illness chinese traditional medicine for madness clinical psychiatry in korea colonial korea mental health holistic approaches to mental health madness in asia madness in korea medical care for mental illness mental health korea mental illness in korea social ostracism for mental illness in korea treating mental disorders with eastern medicine understanding madness in korea Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Print version record Subject Mental illness -- Political aspects -- Korea Mental illness -- Social aspects -- Korea Mental illness -- Treatment -- History -- 20th century Traditional medicine -- Korea Medicine, Chinese. Mental illness -- Treatment. Mental Disorders -- history Medicine, Chinese Traditional Colonialism History, 20th Century Mental Disorders -- therapy POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Security. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Social Services & Welfare. HISTORY -- Asia -- Korea. Medicine, Chinese Mental illness -- Social aspects Mental illness -- Treatment Traditional medicine Besatzung Militär Psychiatrie Therapie SUBJECT Korea -- History -- Japanese occupation, 1910-1945. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85073038 Subject Korea Korea Japan Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9780520964044 0520964047

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