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1. News - Hong Kong - HEALTH

   One in three suffer mental illness, survey finds

   Posted Oct 06th 2012, 12:00am by NG KANG-CHUNG

   ... News Hong Kong Mental Health Psychiatry mental illness Ng Kang-chung kc.ng@scmp.com Survey finds that middle-aged men most at risk of suffering from the stress of life in the city More than one-third of Hongkongers suffer from mental illness, according to a survey by city psychiatrists. The organisers of the Mental Health Month campaign, who conducted the survey, say ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1054859/one-three-suffer-mental-illness-survey-finds
2. Comment - Insight & Opinion

   Lessons to learn from freed mental patient's murder-suicide

   Posted Jan 13th 2013, 12:00am by STAFF

   ... of mental illness and sufferers are stigmatised. Families can be unwilling to concede that loved ones are afflicted, or little understand symptoms and treatment. At the heart of a better life ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1126494/lessons-learn-freed-mental-patients-murder-suicide
3. News - Hong Kong - ON SECOND THOUGHT

   Time to reach out to people on edge

   Posted Jan 14th 2013, 12:00am by Paul Yip

   ... help. Most services for mentally ill and depressed people, even in developed countries let alone developing nations, are fragmented and highly compartmentalised. In order to make a difference, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1127298/time-reach-out-people-edge
4. News - Hong Kong - HEALTH

   Better policy needed to treat mentally ill, top psychiatrist says

   Posted Jan 12th 2013, 12:00am by Emily Tsang and Stephy Shi Yuhan

   ... News Hong Kong Health mentally ill Violence Emily Tsang and Stephy Shi Yuhan Psychiatrists say treatment could be improved after two patients carried out attacks this week Two violent attacks this week involving psychiatric patients show the need for a more comprehensive policy for treating the mentally ill, a top psychiatrist says. Compounding the problem was the city's ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1125712/better-policy-needed-treat-mentally-ill-top-psychiatrist-says
5. News - China - LEGISLATION

   NPC passes first mental health law

   Posted Oct 27th 2012, 12:00am by Alice Yan

   ... News China NPC Mental Health Law mental illness Alice Yan ting.yan@scmp.com After more than 25 years of talks, legislation approved that will end arbitrary forced confinement of people on grounds of mental illness After more than a quarter century of discussion, the National People's Congress Standing Committee has passed the first national mental health law, including a ban ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1070688/npc-passes-first-mental-health-law
6. Chop killer had just left hospital

   Posted Jan 31st 2012, 12:00am

   ... law,' Ting said. 'Doctors need to justify access to mental illness records and the A&E doctors would not have such a reason unless they strongly suspected patients were suffering mental ...

   http://beta.scmp.com/article/991291/chop-killer-had-just-left-hospital
7. News - Hong Kong - HEALTH

   Art therapy programme in Hong Kong helps patients with mental illness

   Posted Oct 24th 2012, 12:00am by Jennifer Cheng

   ... News Hong Kong Health Psychiatry mental illness Art Therapy Jennifer Cheng jennifer.cheng@scmp.com An exhibition gives a glimpse into the minds of people suffering from mental illness; the results on canvas are imaginative and evocative Glimpsing into a mind troubled by mental illness may sound difficult, but an art therapy programme by the University of Hong Kong has opened ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1068120/art-therapy-programme-hong-kong-helps-patients-mental-illness
8. News - Asia - INDONESIA

   How Indonesia's mentally-ill are shackled and forgotten

   Posted Oct 11th 2012, 12:00am by Agence France-Presse

   ... wooden bed in a garden, staring at roosters tottering by. I Ketut Lingga, 54, has schizophrenia and is one of more than 15,000 Indonesians with a mental illness who are either chained, caged ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1058103/indonesias-mentally-ill-shackled-and-forgotten
9. From the Vault: 1966

   Posted May 13th 2007, 12:00am by Peter Walbrook

   ... Entertainment Films Elizabeth Taylor Mental Illness in Fiction Peter Walbrook Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Starring: Richard Burton, Elizabeth Taylor, Sandy Dennis Director: Mike Nichols The film: Widely regarded as both Richard Burton's and Elizabeth Taylor's finest screen hour (or 131 minutes to be precise), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? was also ...

   http://www.scmp.com/article/592597/vault-1966
10. In the running ?

    Posted Mar 24th 2003, 12:00am by Staff Reporter

    ... Human Interest Entertainment Films Mental Illness in Fiction Actor in a lead role Nominations: Adrien Brody (The Pianist); Nicolas Cage (Adaptation); Michael Caine (The Quiet American); Daniel Day-Lewis (Gangs Of New York); Jack Nicholson (About Schmidt). Who should win - Day-Lewis produces an extraordinary performance and the film would have fallen apart without him. Who ...

    http://www.scmp.com/article/410346/running

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