The naturalization of psychiatry in Indonesia and its interaction with indigenous therapeutics

Bibliographic Data

ID2853680
AuthorsNathan Porath (1postdoctoral researcher. [email protected], corresponding author)
Year2008
Volume164
Issue4
Pages500-528
Publication date2008-01-01
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenueBijdragen tot de taal- land- en volkenkunde / Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences of Southeast Asia (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0006-2294 • E-ISSN: 2213-4379
PublisherWalter de Gruyter GmbH (PUBLISHER • DE)
DOI10.1163/22134379-90003653
OpenAlexW2051994361
LanguageEN
Citations received5
References cited12

Psychiatry developed as a modern branch of medical knowledge in Western societies and arrived in Southeast Asia in the late nineteenth century. Dutch colonialism brought psychiatry and psychology to the Dutch East Indies as part of the development of European therapeutics in that part of the empire. During the twentieth century, psychiatry was naturalized in Indonesia (and other Southeast Asian countries) and integrated into the national health care system. In the post-independence period, most Indonesian psychiatrists - there are currently about 450 - received training at Western universities and brought the knowledge of this subject back with them to their home country

Ancient history · Colonialism · Empire · Independence (probability theory · Indigenous · Indonesian · Library science · Naturalization · Political science · Politics · Psychiatry · Subject (documents · Cultural, Psychoanalytic, and Sociopolitical Reflections · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · History · Law · Medicine · Mental Health Treatment and Access

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