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Halberstadt-Freud, H.C. (1991). Mental Health Care in China. Int. R. Psycho-Anal., 18:11-18.

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(1991). International Review of Psycho-Analysis, 18:11-18

Mental Health Care in China

H. C. Halberstadt-Freud Author Information

My journey began with a clash with the Chinese bureaucracy in the person of Mr Wang from the Embassy, who absolutely insisted that he had not received any money from me. So my visa could not be ready in time. My careful preparation for the journey told me that the showing of anger would not help, that patient persistence was the only remedy. Similar surprises were in store for us at the end of the journey, but, apart from this, everything went perfectly. Our hosts were the Chinese Medical Association, which provided two coaches and two guides, doctors trained to accompany foreign medical delegations, as well as an army of interpreters wherever we went. Our group consisted of 38 psychoanalysts (both psychiatrists and psychologists) from western Europe.

One's first stroll through Peking brings home to one the enormous contrast between the poverty in which the Chinese live and the luxury hotels for foreigners along the big boulevards. The population lives in two main ways: there

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