[Encounter with Chinese psychiatry (I). Traditional medicine and psychiatry in China (author's transl)].

The opening of the People's Republic of China after the cultural revolution also offers an opportunity for German neurologists to become acquainted with Chinese public health organization and the system of psychiatric care in the People's Republic of China. Today, Chinese medicine and psychiatry are faced with the problem of combining traditional diagnostic and therapeutic methods, particularly acupuncture and herbal medicine, with western scientific and psychotherapeutic principles and methods. The example of a Worker's Sanatorium stands for the multiplicity of traditional Chinese methods of treatment and also for psychosomatic disorders and diseases.