The socio-cultural significance of the diagnostic label "neurasthenia" in Japan's mental health care system.
This paper is an attempt to explore the socio-cultural significance of deliberately disguising schizophrenia as neurasthenia, neurosis or malfunction of autonomic nervous system. To understand its significance, the socio-cultural background of Japanese attitudes toward mental illness and Japan's mental health care system is also examined from a non-Western standpoint.
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National Institute of Mental Health, Chiba, Japan.
D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D001290:Attitude; D003431:Cross-Cultural Comparison; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007564:Japan; D009440:Neurasthenia / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D010817:Physician-Patient Relations; D011602:Psychophysiologic Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis; D012559:Schizophrenia / Q000175:diagnosis; D012803:Sick Role; D012931:Social Environment; D012945:Social Values