Mental Health in Asia and the Pacific

1. Why Historical, Cultural, Social, Economic and Political Perspectives on Mental Health Matter
Milton Lewis, Harry Minas

2. Mental Health in Pakistan: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow
Safdar A. Sohail, Akhtar A. Syed, Atif Rahman

3. Psychiatry in India: Historical Roots, Development as a Discipline and Contemporary Context
Sanjeev Jain, Alok Sarin, Nadja Ginneken, Pratima Murthy, Christopher Harding, Sudipto Chatterjee

4. Mental Health System Development in Sri Lanka
Harry Minas, Jayan Mendis, Teresa Hall

5. Mental Health in Korea: Past and Present
Min Sung-kil, Yeo In-sok

6. Mental Health System in Japan After the Meiji Restoration: Historical Observations
Naotaka Shinfuku

7. A History of Mental Healthcare in Taiwan
Harry Yi-Jui Wu, Andrew Tai-Ann Cheng

8. Mental Health in Thailand: Historical and Cultural Perspectives
Apichai Mongkol

9. Mental Health in Cambodia
Sotheara Chhim

10. Mental Health in Vietnam
Harry Minas, Claire Edington, Nhan La, Ritsuko Kakuma

11. Historical and Cultural Perspectives from the Philippines
Lourdes Ladrido-Ignacio, Michael Tan, Joffrey Sebastian Quiring

12. From Centralized to Decentralized Service: Mental Health and Psychiatry in Malaysia
Heong Hong Por, Mohamed Hatta Shaharom

13. Mental Health and Psychiatry in Singapore: From Asylum to Community Care
Kah Seng Loh, Ee Heok Kua, Rathi Mahendran

14. Psychiatry and Mental Health Care in Indonesia from Colonial to Modern Times
Hans Pols, Sasanto Wibisono

15. The History of Mental Health in Papua New Guinea
Graham J. Roberts

16. The History of Mental Health in Fiji
Graham J. Roberts, Jacqueline Leckie, Odille Chang

17. Mental Health in the Smaller Pacific States
Jacqueline Leckie, Frances Hughes

18. Grafting and Crafting New Zealand’s Mental Health Policy
Warwick Brunton, Peter McGeorge

19. Mental Health in Australia, 1788–2015: A History of Responses to Cultural and Social Challenges
Milton Lewis, Stephen Garton

Keywords: Psychology, Health Psychology, Psychiatry