PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences

History of Japanese psychopathology: Portraits of the second-generation psychopathologists (Takeo Doi, Yomishi Kasahara, Hiroshi Yasunaga, Tadao Miyamoto, Bin Kimura, and Hisao Nakai) and their relationship to psychiatric reform movement in Japan.

PCN reports : psychiatry and clinical neurosciences June 2023 Takuya Matsumoto, Kenshin Shimizu, Weijian Mo

This paper attempts to provide an overview of the history of Japanese psychopathology by presenting concise portraits of the second generation of Japanese psychopathologists, whose era is considered to be the heyday of Japanese psychopathology. Meanwhile, we also consider the historical background of the psychiatric reform movement in Japan that influenced many second-generation...