Past Programs
Healthcare Facilities - 2002
Disease of the Split Soul: Schizophrenia in Japan
17/11/2002
This week, a cross-cultural take on mental health. Japan has just officially renamed schizophrenia after a 10 year campaign by families of people with mental illness to change it. It's a small step towards erasing the paralyzing stigma surrounding mental illness in Japanese society. But in a country that has the highest number of patients in psychiatric hospitals, and where more than 30,000 people commit suicide each year - is it just a drop in the ocean?
