Professor Xu Youxin (surname Xu) is one of the most important psychiatrists of the generation in their 70s and 80s in China. His generation endured the breakdown of organized society in the Warlord Period, the great uncertainties of the early Nationalist era, the desperation and destruction of the war with Japan, the bitterness of the Chinese Civil War, the tumult of the radical Maoist years (including the deadly Great Leap Famine and the chaos of the Cultural Revolution), and the period of unprecedented economic reform and prosperity (capped by the current economic downturn). During that time, psychiatry as a profession has emerged in China. Xu Youxin contributed especially to the Chinese profession's breakaway from a narrow Soviet-oriented neuropsychiatry that barely survived the criticisms and attacks of the Cultural Revolution to open to the world in the 1970s.
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