Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy

Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy

Author
Li Zhang
Publisher
University of California Press
Language
English
Year
2020
Page
224
ISBN
0520344189,9780520344181
File Type
pdf
File Size
4.7 MiB

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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