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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.

Psychotherapy --- Psychotherapy. --- Political aspects --- china. --- contemporary chinese society. --- economic reform. --- economics. --- ethnography. --- family dynamics. --- happiness. --- inner landscape. --- inner revolution. --- institutional rationality. --- market driven competition. --- mental disorders. --- mental distress. --- mental health. --- middle class urbanites. --- political authority. --- psyche. --- psychological counseling. --- psychotherapeutic culture. --- satir model. --- self transformation. --- selfhood. --- social changes. --- sociality. --- socioeconomic structures. --- therapeutic governing. --- therapeutic relationships. --- therapeutic self.

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