The Law of Private Imprisonment: Fifty Dark Years for the Mentally Ill in Japan

Kumasaka, Y.; Yoshioka, Shigetaka

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“…The “Mental Patients’ Custody Act, 1900” ( Seishin Byosha Kango Ho , 1900) was the first law governing mental health care policy in Japan. It required families to segregate patients in prison-like “private residences” ( Zashiki Ro ) (Kumasaka and Yoshioka, 1968). The government then established the “Mental Hospital Act, 1919” ( Seisin Byoin Ho , 1919) to encourage municipal authorities to set up public hospitals for psychiatric patients.…”

Section: Background To Japanese Mental Health Servicesmentioning

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“Seikatsu Rinsho” – a values-based approach to supporting recovery in Japan

Ogawa

Hasegawa³

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Purpose This paper aims to introduce Seikatsu Rinsho, a values-based approach to supporting recovery based on identifying service user values and aspirations that have been developed since 1958 in Japan where mental health services are still hospital-based and user involvement is not well-developed. This paper believes this will be of great implications for future practices around the world. Design/methodology/approach Hope is essential to recovery and that hope is dependent on identifying what service users really want for themselves (aspirations) and then ensuring that these are communicated to – and supported by – professionals and carers. This is achieved through examining the life events, which are likely to trigger relapse for a specific individual, the important choices that the person has made throughout his/her life course and the reasons behind them. Through a process of “co-production”, an attempt is made to understand the values expressed in these choices in the context of family history over several generations. Findings The attempt to examine both life events throughout the life course and family history over generations was found to be an effective way to understand a service user and his/her family and then support recovery. The cases where even people with severe and persistent mental health problems have successfully achieved full recovery have been accumulated. Research limitations/implications The limitations of the approach in the context of Japanese mental health services, and the necessity of additional evidence are acknowledged and some thoughts shall be given to future development. Originality/value Seikatsu Rinsho approach can provide a new angle to understand service users and family and a new way to support recovery.

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“Seikatsu Rinsho” – a values-based approach to supporting recovery in Japan

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“…Another characteristic feature of the canonical texts of history of Japanese psychiatry is the line of demarcation between two diametrically opposed narratives. The first, represented by the works of Totsuka Etsurō, Kumasaka Yoshino and Yoshioka Shinji, engages in a fierce critique of the backwardness of Japanese psychiatry and its inhuman practices (see Totsuka 1990;Kumasaka and Yoshioka 1968), mirroring the common Western criticism of 20thcentury medicine (see Stieda 1906: 514-522). The second, 'nihonron-like' narrative challenges these accusations by referring to genuine Japanese modes of psychiatric care in order to draw a more positive picture of early Japanese psychiatry (see Suzuki 2003a: 193-225;Nakatani 2003: 194-198).…”

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For Body, Mind and the Nation: An Archaeology of Modern Japanese Psychiatry

Leitner¹

2014

Vienna Journal of East Asian Studies

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This paper reassesses the history of psychiatry in Japan through application of the theory of disciplinary power by Michel Foucault. The society of the early Meiji era (1868-1912) is defined as a disciplinary society within the scope of discourses on punishment and general social reforms. By focussing on a close reading of both canonical and marginalised fragments of psychiatric texts, this analysis reveals their constitutive character for the establishment of psychiatric discourses. These texts, rooted in biological psychiatry, are shown to stress the hazard that mental illness presented to the nation. Recourse to juridical problems, which derive from enacting a European model of law, provides an explanation for the necessity of psychiatry as a social institution. The key point is to identify a discursive break between two major legal acts dealing with the confinement of the mentally ill: the Mental Patients Custody Act of 1900 and the Mental Hospital Act of 1919. The first deals mainly with administrative issues, while the latter was formed under the influence of an emerging psychiatric power. The Mental Hospital Act refines the disciplinary network operating in the social space, while blurring the discursive fissure between traditional care and psychiatric techniques.

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1968 Annual Supplement

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The Law of Private Imprisonment: Fifty Dark Years for the Mentally Ill in Japan

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“Seikatsu Rinsho” – a values-based approach to supporting recovery in Japan

“Seikatsu Rinsho” – a values-based approach to supporting recovery in Japan

For Body, Mind and the Nation: An Archaeology of Modern Japanese Psychiatry

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