| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 208 pages) : illustrations |
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text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Psychotherapy -- China.
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Psychotherapy. |
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China. |
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Psychotherapy -- Political aspects -- China.
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Psychotherapy -- Political aspects. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Zhang, Li, 1965 May- Anxious China Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020] 9780520344181 (DLC) 2019059515 |
| ISBN |
0520975391 electronic book |
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9780520975392 (electronic book) |
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9780520344181 hardcover |
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9780520344198 paperback |
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