Anxious China : inner revolution and politics of psychotherapy / Li Zhang.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Zhang, Li, 1965 May-, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Psychotherapy--China.

Psychotherapy.

Psychotherapy--Political aspects--China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2020.

Summary:

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:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

ILLUSTRATIONS

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Introduction

Chapter 1. Psy Fever

Chapter 2. Bentuhua

Chapter 3. Therapeutic Relationships with Chinese Characteristics?

Chapter 4. Branding the Satir Model

Chapter 5. Crafting a Therapeutic Self

Chapter 6. Cultivating Happiness

Chapter 7. Therapeutic Governing

Epilogue

NOTES

REFERENCES

INDEX

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520975392

0520975391

OCLC:

1137180110