Psy Fever/Psycho-Boom: The Mental Picture of a Transforming China
Since the beginning of the 21st century, there is a boom of popular participation in psychotherapy and training in urban China, which has attracted the attention of anthropologists who called this phenomenon a “psycho-boom” or “psy fever.” This article is a review of anthropological studies on this...
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| description | Since the beginning of the 21st century, there is a boom of popular participation in psychotherapy and training in urban China, which has attracted the attention of anthropologists who called this phenomenon a “psycho-boom” or “psy fever.” This article is a review of anthropological studies on this issue and discusses how psychotherapeutic knowledge and practice with western origin has been indigenized by Chinese psychotherapists as well as the emergence of a new form of self in this psycho-boom. Critical anthropologists tend to emphasize the connection between this psy fever and governmentality. This article shows the insights and blind spots of this perspective, calling for attention to the heterogeneity and agency of participants in this psy fever as well as the potentiality of psychotherapy as both expression and intervention for sufferings in the context of drastic social transformation. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-e76570bb238d4f92ab5ae21c7abc1ba02023-08-24T13:13:52ZengInspirees International B.V.Creative Arts in Education and Therapy2451-876X2468-23062023-08-0191102110.15212/CAET/2023/9/21Psy Fever/Psycho-Boom: The Mental Picture of a Transforming ChinaAn Mengzhu0Yunnan University, ChinaSince the beginning of the 21st century, there is a boom of popular participation in psychotherapy and training in urban China, which has attracted the attention of anthropologists who called this phenomenon a “psycho-boom” or “psy fever.” This article is a review of anthropological studies on this issue and discusses how psychotherapeutic knowledge and practice with western origin has been indigenized by Chinese psychotherapists as well as the emergence of a new form of self in this psycho-boom. Critical anthropologists tend to emphasize the connection between this psy fever and governmentality. This article shows the insights and blind spots of this perspective, calling for attention to the heterogeneity and agency of participants in this psy fever as well as the potentiality of psychotherapy as both expression and intervention for sufferings in the context of drastic social transformation.https://caet.inspirees.com/caetojsjournals/index.php/caet/article/view/444psycho-boom/psy feverpsychotherapyagencygovernmentalityself |
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| title | Psy Fever/Psycho-Boom: The Mental Picture of a Transforming China |
| title_full | Psy Fever/Psycho-Boom: The Mental Picture of a Transforming China |
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| title_short | Psy Fever/Psycho-Boom: The Mental Picture of a Transforming China |
| title_sort | psy fever psycho boom the mental picture of a transforming china |
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