Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy Zhang Li
Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy Zhang Li The breathless pace of China's economic reform has brought about deep ruptures in socioeconomic structures and people's inner…
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Anxious China: Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy Zhang Li
The breathless pace of China's economic reform has brought about deep ruptures in socioeconomic structures and people's inner landscape. 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. 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.
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 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.