Mostly Chinese, Japanese, and Korean, but also one Indian, scholars of mental and social health explore why and how the common, universal matrices of the human mind become shaped in such a way that they contribute to the Asian mind and take on Asian patterns of personality, feeling, thinking, and psychopathology. Those insights are used in turn to discuss how to improve approaches to mental healing. Annotation ©2005 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)