| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 208 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Introduction -- Psy fever -- Bentuhua : culturing psychotherapy -- Therapeutic relations with Chinese characteristics? -- Branding the Satir Model -- Crafting a therapeutic self -- Cultivating happiness -- Therapeutic governing -- Epilogue |
| 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"-- Provided by publisher |
| Analysis |
china |
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contemporary chinese society |
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economic reform |
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economics |
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ethnography |
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family dynamics |
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happiness |
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inner landscape |
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inner revolution |
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institutional rationality |
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market driven competition |
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mental disorders |
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mental distress |
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mental health |
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middle class urbanites |
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political authority |
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psyche |
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psychological counseling |
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psychotherapeutic culture |
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satir model |
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self transformation |
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selfhood |
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social changes |
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sociality |
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socioeconomic structures |
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therapeutic governing |
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therapeutic relationships |
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therapeutic self |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Description based on print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Psychotherapy -- China
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Psychotherapy -- Political aspects -- China
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Psychiatry
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
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Psychotherapy
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Psychotherapy -- Political aspects
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China
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2019059516 |
| ISBN |
0520975391 |
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9780520975392 |
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