Mental Health in Asia and the Pacific: Historical and Cultural Perspectives

Why historical, cultural, social, economic and political perspectives on mental health matter.- Mental health in Pakistan: yesterday, today and tomorrow.- Psychiatry in India: Historical roots, development as a discipline and contemporary context.- Mental health system development in Sri Lanka.- Mental health in Korea: past and present.- Mental health system in Japan after the Meiji Restoration: historical observations.- A History of mental healthcare in Taiwan.- Mental health in Thailand: historical and cultural Perspectives.- Mental health in Cambodia.- Mental Health in Vietnam.- Historical and cultural perspectives from the Philippines.- From centralized to decentralized service: mental health and psychiatry in Malaysia.- Mental health and psychiatry in Singapore: from asylum to community care.- Psychiatry and mental health care in Indonesia from colonial to modern times.- The history of mental health in Papua New Guinea.- The history of mental health in Fiji.- Mental health in the Smaller Pacific States.- Grafting and crafting New Zealand's mental health policy.- Mental health in Australia, 1788-2014: a history of responses to cultural and social challenges.