Comments on: Renaming – a cure for stigma? http://www.mentalhealthcamp.org/renaming-a-cure-for-stigma/ Erasing Stigma and Exploring Possibilities with Social Media - Second Annnual Mental Health Camp (July 10, 2010, Vancouver, British Columbia Canada) Tue, 20 Jul 2010 02:25:22 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Andrew Grimes JFP, JSCCP, M.Sci. Pth http://www.mentalhealthcamp.org/renaming-a-cure-for-stigma/comment-page-1/#comment-265 Andrew Grimes JFP, JSCCP, M.Sci. Pth Sat, 25 Apr 2009 08:22:31 +0000 http://www.mentalhealthcamp.org/?p=102#comment-265 Whether or not renaming of disorders solely in itself can be said to be a cure for stigma i believe it can be helpful. The term "bipolar disorder" in English can be said to have a less emotive and stigmatizing than the formerly used "manic-depressive disorder" The old diagnostic term in Japanese "Seishin-Bunretsu-Byo", often shortened in everyday conversation to "Bunretsu-byo", had the very strong negative connotations such as criminally insane and in some members of the public mind even as far as being associated with dangerous crazy people. "Bunretsu-byo" could be translated as "split-personality". This link is to a top Japanese - English translation website (hope it does not get lost in translation) which just produced some of the translations for "bunretsu" as shown below it: http://eow.alc.co.jp/%E5%88%86%E8%A3%82/UTF-8/ The word "bunretsu" itself has meaning of splitting //breakup // cleavage // cleaving // disintegration // disjunction // disorganization // disruption // disunion // divide // division // fission // fissuration // fissure // fragmentation // partition // rent // schism // scissure // split // split-up 1. disunite 2. ramify 3. schismatize 4. segmentalize dissever, disrupter The new and much more widely used term by mental health professionals in Japan of “Togo-Shitcho-Sho” (Integration Disorder or Schizophrenia) is now gaining more acceptance and understanding in everyday conversation in Japan. This has taken place since the change of term from "Seishin-Bunretsu-Byo" to “Togo-Shitcho-Sho” was officially announced at the 12th World Congress of Psychiatry Yokohama Japan between August 24th - 29th 2002: http://www.counselingjapan.com/eng/cs_tokyo_japan_ml20022.ph Best regards from Japan Whether or not renaming of disorders solely in itself can be said to be a cure for stigma i believe it can be helpful. The term “bipolar disorder” in English can be said to have a less emotive and stigmatizing than the formerly used “manic-depressive disorder” The old diagnostic term in Japanese “Seishin-Bunretsu-Byo”, often shortened in everyday conversation to “Bunretsu-byo”, had the very strong negative connotations such as criminally insane and in some members of the public mind even as far as being associated with dangerous crazy people. “Bunretsu-byo” could be translated as “split-personality”.

This link is to a top Japanese – English translation website (hope it does not get lost in translation) which just produced some of the translations for “bunretsu” as shown below it:

http://eow.alc.co.jp/%E5%88%86%E8%A3%82/UTF-8/

The word “bunretsu” itself has meaning of splitting //breakup // cleavage // cleaving // disintegration // disjunction // disorganization // disruption // disunion // divide // division // fission // fissuration // fissure // fragmentation // partition // rent // schism // scissure // split // split-up

1. disunite
2. ramify
3. schismatize
4. segmentalize

dissever, disrupter

The new and much more widely used term by mental health professionals in Japan of “Togo-Shitcho-Sho” (Integration Disorder or Schizophrenia) is now gaining more acceptance and understanding in everyday conversation in Japan. This has taken place since the change of term from “Seishin-Bunretsu-Byo” to “Togo-Shitcho-Sho” was officially announced at the 12th World Congress of Psychiatry Yokohama Japan between August 24th – 29th 2002:

http://www.counselingjapan.com/eng/cs_tokyo_japan_ml20022.ph

Best regards from Japan

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