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Main description:
The breathless pace of China's economic reform has brought about deep ruptures in socioeconomic structures and people's inner landscape. Faced with increasing market-driven competition and profound social changes, more and more middle-class urbanites are turning to Western-style psychological counseling to grapple with their mental distress. This book offers an in-depth ethnographic account of how an unfolding "inner revolution" is reconfiguring selfhood, psyche, family dynamics, sociality, and the mode of governing in post-socialist times. Li Zhang shows that anxiety-broadly construed in both medical and social terms-has become a powerful indicator for the general pulse of contemporary Chinese society. It is in this particular context that Zhang traces how a new psychotherapeutic culture takes root, thrives, and transforms itself across a wide range of personal, social, and political domains.
Contents:
List of Illustrations
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. Psy Fever
2. Bentuhua: Culturing Psychotherapy
3. Therapeutic Relationships with Chinese Characteristics?
4. Branding the Satir Model
5. Crafting a Therapeutic Self
6. Cultivating Happiness
7. Therapeutic Governing
Epilogue
Notes
References
Index
PRODUCT DETAILS
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: August, 2020
Pages: 213
Dimensions: 152.00 x 229.00 x 20.00
Weight: 454g
Availability: Available
Subcategories: Psychotherapy