Anxious China

Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy

Li Zhang (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

224 Seiten

2020
University of California Press (Verlag)
978-0-520-34418-1 (ISBN)

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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.

Li Zhang is Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of two award-winning books, Strangers in the City and In Search of Paradise.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	04.08.2020
Zusatzinfo	8 b-w illustrations
Verlagsort	Berkerley
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Medizin / Pharmazie ► Medizinische Fachgebiete ► Psychiatrie / Psychotherapie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-520-34418-9 / 0520344189
ISBN-13	978-0-520-34418-1 / 9780520344181
Zustand	Neuware