How are capitalist ideas of individual improvement clashing with party ideals?

In Health Check, Dr Raj Persaud discovers the ways in which psychology and psychiatry are changing in China.

He explores current Chinese attitude to mental illness and finds out how the quality of psychiatry and psychiatric care have improved.

At the World Psychiatric Association's recent meeting in Shanghai, Dr Persaud finds out about the kind of mental illness seen in China today.

Also, find out about the investigation by the World Psychiatric Association on claims of political abuse of psychiatry in China, where people with dissident views would be treated involuntarily.

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