Viewpoint
10.18.19

Converting the Converters

Darius Longarino

Chinese LGBT advocates have set out to convince China’s mental health field that being professionally competent means being LGBT-affirming (and for the already LGBT-friendly counselors, that mere friendliness is not enough—they also need to have...

Viewpoint
08.23.18

It’s Too Easy to Wind up in a Chinese Psychiatric Hospital, and Far Too Hard to Get Out

Jerome A. Cohen & Chi Yin

Every day in China, hundreds of people are involuntarily confined in mental health facilities, some through their involvement in criminal cases, many more via the government’s civil commitment processes. Whether, how, and how long to detain the...

China's Napoleon Complex

With Deng’s political reforms in the 1980s and 1990s came increased discrimination based on appearance.

The NYRB China Archive
01.27.03

China’s Psychiatric Terror

Jonathan Mirsky
from New York Review of Books

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At its triennial congress in Yokohama last September, the World Psychiatric Association (WPA) overwhelmingly voted to send a delegation to China to investigate charges that dissidents were being imprisoned and maltreated as “political...