Chinese Society of Psychiatry
Abbreviation | CSP |
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Predecessor | Chinese Society of Neuro-Psychiatry |
Formation | 1951 |
Membership (2005) | 800 |
Parent organization | Chinese Medical Association |
Website | csp |
The Chinese Society of Psychiatry (CSP;
Origins and organization
The organization developed out of the Chinese Society of Neuro-Psychiatry, which was founded in 1951. This separated into the Chinese Society of Psychiatry and Chinese Society of Neurology in 1994. Since then, successive committees have run the organisation, currently the 3rd Committee, which started in 2003, whose president is Dongfeng Zhou. The CCMD is now on its third revision.
The official journal of the CSP is the Chinese Journal of Psychiatry (中华精神科杂志).[2] The Society held its seventh annual academic conference in 2006.[3] The Society is a member of the World Psychiatric Association.
As of 2005, the CSP had 800 members.[4]
History
In 2001, the CSP declassified homosexuality and bisexuality as a mental disorder.[5][6][7] However, the organization specified that, "although homosexuality was not a disease, a person could be conflicted or suffering from mental illness because of their sexuality, and that condition could be treated", according to Damien Lu, founder of the Information Clearing House for Chinese Gays and Lesbians. Reportedly, this loophole is used to promote conversion therapy in China.[8]
Beginning in 2014, the CSP began collaborating with the
Controversy
The Chinese Society of Psychiatrists (CSP) has been criticised for alleged complicity in the government's political abuse of psychiatry towards Falun Gong practitioners—including by detaining individuals via diagnosing adherents as "political maniacs" or with "Qi Gong psychosis".[11][4] Antipsychotic drugs were wrongly prescribed to practitioners.[12]
In 2004, the CSP agreed on a joint response with the World Psychiatric Association to the allegations. According to the CSP, certain psychiatrists had "failed to distinguish between spiritual-cultural beliefs and delusions" due to "lack of training and professional skills", and this led to misdiagnoses. However, they claimed this was not a systematic issue and invited the WPA to correct the problem.[12][13]
The WPA stated, "What has become clear... has been the need to assist Chinese colleagues in matters concerning forensic psychiatry, medical ethics, patients' rights, mental health legislation, diagnosis and classification, to help them improve the care of mentally ill in China and prevent future abuses."[12] Arthur Kleinman, a psychiatrist at Harvard University, said he believed the claims about systematic abuse of psychiatry were exaggerated, while acknowledging that it did occur in some cases. Abraham Halpern, a psychiatrist at New York Medical College and board member of the Friends of Falun Gong, USA, criticized the WPA for not demanding an investigative mission in China.[13][14]
A follow-up review of the controversy was written by Alan A. Stone, a professor of psychiatry and president of the American Psychiatric Association, and published in the Psychiatric Times. Stone determined that psychiatrists in China were generally poorly trained and did not receive the sort of medical training which was standard in the West. Stone said this was cause for the misdiagnoses.[4]
See also
- Mental health in China
- Political abuse of psychiatry in China
References
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- ^ "Chinese Journal of Psychiatry". CJP Homepage.
- ^ "The 7th Annual Academic Conference of Chinese Society of Psychiatry". 8 September 2006. Archived from the original on 28 September 2007. Retrieved 21 September 2019.
- ^ a b c Stone, Alan A. (2005-05-01). "The China Psychiatry Crisis: Following Up on the Plight of the Falun Gong". Psychiatric Times. 22 (6).
- ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
- ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
- ^ Piao, Vanessa (2016-04-13). "中国跨性别就业歧视第一案启动仲裁". The New York Times (in Chinese). Archived from the original on 2016-04-12. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
- S2CID 45700706.
- ^ "McLean Hospital-Chinese Society of Psychiatry Initiative in Psychiatry at McLean Hospital". McLean Hospital. Archived from the original on 2019-09-26. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
- ^ "McLean News | Psychiatrists Without Borders: Collaborating Across Cultures". McLean Hospital. Archived from the original on 2020-08-08. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
- ^ Gittings, John (2002-08-12). "China 'sending dissidents to mental hospitals'". The Guardian. Retrieved 2021-04-08.
- ^ PMID 16633475.
- ^ .
- ^ Abraham L. Halpern, Letter to the World Medical Association Archived August 16, 2007, at the Wayback Machine, April 15, 2007