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Byline: Melinda Liu
The last time China suffered a disaster on the magnitude of the recent Sichuan earthquake, its Maoist leaders spurned psychology as a "bourgeois" discipline. Survivors of the 1976 Tangshan quake, which killed some 255,000 people, were left to cope on their own with posttraumatic stress. But on May 12, Communist Party leaders ordered an unprecedented mobilization of mental-health workers alongside disaster-relief efforts. The need is great: as many as 80,000 killed, 5,500 orphaned and 5 million homeless. Reports say 600,000 citizens may need psychological help.
"Some survivors act tough, but they really are having problems," says Dr. Yuan Linfang, head of a ...
Source: HighBeam Research, Healing Sichuan's Psyche.(Periscope; QUAKE AFTERMATH)(Brief article)