Article ID: CBB101524488

Maoism and mental illness: Psychiatric institutionalization during the Chinese Cultural Revolution (2022)

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This article offers a preliminary analysis of psychiatric treatment during the Chinese Cultural Revolution on the basis of interviews and rare case records obtained from ‘F Hospital’ in southern China. In contrast to the prevailing view of psychiatry during this time, which highlights either rampant patient abuse or revolutionary ideology, we show that psychiatric treatment at this facility was not radically altered by the politics of the Maoist period. Instead, treatments were informed by a predominantly biomedical understanding of mental illness, one that derived from the prior training of the facility’s lead physicians. Although political education was nominally incorporated into patient rehabilitation and outpatient care, it was not a constitutive element of inpatient treatment during the acute phase of illness.

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Authors & Contributors
Jiang, Lijing
Wang, Wenji
Halliwell, Martin
Leckie, Jacqueline
Durns, Tyler
Pinto, Sarah Ann
Concepts
Medicine and politics
Mental disorders and diseases
Psychiatry
Institutionalization
Health care
Psychiatric hospitals
Time Periods
20th century, late
21st century
18th century
Enlightenment
20th century, early
20th century
Places
China
United States
Bombay (India)
Glasgow (Scotland)
Mexico City (Mexico)
Islands of the Pacific
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