ABSTRACT
The practice of Western psychiatry in the treatment of mental disorders is relatively young in Eastern Asia. It was gradually introduced to the East sometime in the early nineteenth century when the West started trading in the region and colonized some of these Far East and South-East Asian countries. It appears, however, that psychotherapy in the treatment of mental illness, and in particular schizophrenia, has not been emphasized. The approach seems to have remained predominantly biomedical until today.
