RESUMO
Asian Psychiatry like the Asian continent has a very diverse and complex history of development that has led to enormous gaps in level of advancement. The very affluent countries have very well developed medical services; but most Asian psychiatric services, training and state of advancement leaves a lot to be desired. The marginalization of psychiatric services and mental health in health care in Asia has led to very irregular development of basic services for the mentally ill. Concepts such as counseling, psychotherapy, rehabilitation are far behind in practice compared to medication in Asia. There are also poor human and material resources for the 21st century's practice of psychiatry in the community or hospital settings. This paper discusses some of these problems and suggests some alternative ways to overcome them.
Assuntos
Serviços de Saúde Mental/tendências , Psiquiatria/tendências , Mudança Social , Ásia , Países Desenvolvidos , Países em Desenvolvimento , Educação Médica/estatística & dados numéricos , Humanos , Transtornos Mentais/reabilitação , Transtornos Mentais/terapia , Saúde Mental , Psiquiatria/educação , Transtornos Psicóticos/reabilitação , Transtornos Psicóticos/terapiaRESUMO
Malaysia is a tropical country in the heart of South East Asia, at the crossroads of the ancient east-west sea trade routes. Although independent from British colonial rule only in 1957, it has a recorded history dating back to at least the first century CE, when the region was already the source of valuable mineral and forest produce that found markets in China, India and further west.
