YOKOHAMA -- Mental health experts at an international convention of psychiatry here on Sunday stressed the need to eliminate the stigma attached to and discrimination faced by people with schizophrenia and their families.
During the second day of the 12th World Convention of Psychiatry, Dr. Yuki Nishimura discussed a recent change in the Japanese translation of the illness.
The Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology, which is co-organizing the six-day international convention, has reconsidered the use of the term "seishin bunretsu byo," the long-standing translation of schizophrenia.