Overseas Obsessive Compulsive Disorder:a History of Mental Illness in Colonial Taiwan / 漂洋過海的強迫症─一個精神疾病的日治台灣史

碩士 / 世新大學 / 社會發展研究所(含碩專班) / 95 / The discourse of “Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD)” changed twice during colonial period. Alternation of OCD discourse not only indicates the change of Taiwan psychiatric medicine, but also shows contemporary relationship between western countries and Japan. By realizing this period of history, we know Japan continually absorbed the latest knowledge and skills from western world. However, this way made its people cannot find an appropriate position and then had the feeling of inferiority. Under this circumstance, Japanese colonized Taiwanese with inferiority and superiority simultaneously.
If we go further to observe the relationship between OCD and social circumstance, we can find that wars among Japan, China and Korea started from 1931. For instance, Japanese army attacked the northeast of China on September 18th, 1931 and occupied Shen-yang. That is so-called ‘nine one eight incident’. Another example is ‘Shanhaiguan incident’, a conflict between Japanese army and Chinese army in Shanhaiguan. About OCD discourse, it changed in 1934. Zhong-xiu-shan introduced the theory of neurosis written by San-tian-zheng-ma. This theory indicates people were afraid of tropical climate and could not stop checking their physical and psychological condition. This kind of behavior shows Japanese neurosis personality to pursue flawless.
The appearance of new OCD discourse was quite closed to wars time. From my point of view, their relation is: Japanese feared tropical climate deteriorated them so that they hesitated to manage Taiwan. For making Japanese government not to give up Taiwan, Zhong-xiu-shan adopted the theory of neurosis to interpret OCD. The new discourse was like the shield which protected Japanese from tropical climate. It made Japanese extend overseas bravely. In conclusion, the alternation of OCD not only means the history of Taiwan psychiatric medicine, but also indicates the history of Japan politics and military.

Identiferoai:union.ndltd.org:TW/095SHU05655003
Date January 2007
CreatorsPei-shuan Fan, 范珮瑄
ContributorsHsiao-Chuan Hsia, 夏曉鵑
Source SetsNational Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations in Taiwan
Languagezh-TW
Detected LanguageEnglish
Type學位論文 ; thesis
Format65

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