Anxious China :: inner revolution and politics of psychotherapy /

"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 psyc...

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Main Author: Zhang, Li, 1965 May- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2020]
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
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"--
Physical Description:1 online resource (xiv, 208 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:0520975391
9780520975392

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