Mental Illness in Japan

Shedding light on problems with Japans psychiatric care- JEFF

KINGSTON ~ MENTAL HEALTH CARE IN JAPAN, edited by Ruth Taplin and
Sandra J. Lawman
(http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2012/11/25/books/book-
reviews/shedding-light-on-problems-with-japans-psychiatric-
care/#.WMV6QlV97Dd)

megadose culture in psychiatric care.- patients are sedated

almost all the time because of low staff, them being unable to
care for all properly
Resulting from=> inadequate psychiatric medical education and
the reimbursement system of national health insurance
U.S. Ambassador Edwin Reischauer, attacked by a mentally ill
patient, massive media campaign setting a negative light on the
mentally ill => mass hysteria=> mass institutionalization(1964)
~one of them was a reporter who talked about the mistreatment
of patients
further reform is blocked by the Japanese Association of
Psychiatric Hospitals, a private industry lobby group that
zealously guards its beds and profits
suicides in Japan, annually over 30,000 since 1998

Nakamura Karen

Discriminatory phrases: tenkyou and chiokure

Bethel House (Beteru no Ie) was founded in the town of Urakawa in
1984 to help people with severe mental illnesses such as schizophrenia
live in the community after being discharged from the long-term
psychiatric ward of the Urakawa Red Cross Hospital.- Hokkaido
people with mental illness are warehoused in hospitals for long
stretches of time and take a lot of medication ;people with mental
illness are warehoused in hospitals for long stretches of time and take
a lot of medication (17)