It's Madness examines Korea's years under Japanese colonialism,
when mental health first became defined as a medical and social
problem. As in most Asian countries, severe social ostracism,
shame, and fear of jeopardizing marriage prospects compelled most
Korean families to conceal the mentally ill behind closed doors.
This book explores the impact of Chinese traditional medicine and
its holistic approach to treating mental disorders, the resilience
of folk illnesses as explanations for inappropriate and dangerous
behaviors, the emergence of clinical psychiatry as a discipline,
and the competing models of care under the Japanese colonial
authorities and Western missionary doctors. Drawing upon
unpublished archival as well as printed sources, this is the first
study to examine the ways in which "madness" was understood,
classified, and treated in traditional Korea and the role of
science in pathologizing and redefining mental illness under
Japanese colonial rule.
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