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| | Psychiatry Diagnosis | | 2005-2-22 0:27:02 Chinese Society of Psychiatry Zou Yizhuang M.D,Ph.D |  Psychiatry Diagnosis
Chinese psychiatry has its own clinical diagnostic system: the Chinese Classification of Mental Disorders, which is on its 3 version (CCMD-III) and closed to the ICD-10, but it adapted Chinese culture and includes some specific mental problems mainly in Chinese. The CCMD-III includes mental disorders like "Koro"(men afraid of the penis shrink or draw back into their body), mental disorders due to "CHI-GONG"(the mental disorder through the practice of CHI-GONG), traveling psychosis (the temporary psychotic reaction through stressed traveling) and so on.
The CCMD-III is closed to Western system though some difference existed. For example of schizophrenia, the CCMD has the similarity on the symptoms, but the course of the illness has to be at lest 3 month instead of 6 months in DSM-IV. The neurasthenia with a lot of somatic complaints is still used in clinic practice in China though it becomes less commonly now.
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Ministry of Health, (2003) No.013
ICP:No.040657