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Anxious China : Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy, Paperback / softback Book

Anxious China : Inner Revolution and Politics of Psychotherapy Paperback / softback

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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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