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Anxious China
Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy
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English
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2020
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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.
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Contributor: Li Zhang
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.
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CONTENTS
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ILLUSTRATIONS
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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
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Introduction
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Chapter 1. Psy Fever
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Chapter 2. Bentuhua
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Chapter 3. Therapeutic Relationships with Chinese Characteristics?
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Chapter 4. Branding the Satir Model
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Chapter 5. Crafting a Therapeutic Self
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Chapter 6. Cultivating Happiness
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Chapter 7. Therapeutic Governing
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NOTES
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REFERENCES
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INDEX
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Keywords for this book
china; psychological counseling; psychotherapeutic culture; ethnography; contemporary chinese society; therapeutic relationships; therapeutic self; satir model; therapeutic governing; self transformation; institutional rationality; political authority; inner landscape; mental distress; economic reform; economics; market driven competition; middle class urbanites; mental health; mental disorders; selfhood; psyche; family dynamics; sociality; happiness; social changes; inner revolution; socioeconomic structures
