Culturing Psychotherapy, Transforming Selfhood in Postsocialist China

培养心理治疗，改变后社会主义中国的自我

• 批准号: 0959371
• 负责人: Li Zhang
• 金额: $ 14.82万
• 依托单位: University of California-Davis
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2010
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2010-04-01 至 2013-03-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=0959371&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Culturing; Psychotherapy; Transforming; Selfhood; Postsocialist

Dr. Li Zhang, of the University of California at Davis, will undertake research on the impact of rapid socioeconomic transformations on the remaking of psychic life and concepts of what it means to be a person. The research will be carried out in China, where the breathless pace of market reforms has engendered profound changes and ruptures in not only economic and social structures but also the mental and emotional lives of Chinese citizens. Faced with the increasingly competitive and stressful lives, more middle-class urbanites are turning to professional psychological counseling and therapy to grapple with their anxiety, mental distress, and personal problems. Thus postsocialist China provides an ideal setting in which to explore a phenomenon that is taking place worldwide.To investigate this "inner revolution," Zhang will focus on one of China's emerging psychotherapy movements. The research will be conducted in the city of Kunming in southwestern China. Data will be gathered through a mix of social scientific methods, including: participant observation of counseling sessions, semi-structured interviews with therapists and clients, illness narratives, media analysis, and archival research. Her research will address the following questions: Why do some Chinese people today seek psychotherapy and how do they make sense of their experiences? How are Western-originated psychotherapy models altered and adapted to suit Chinese cultural sensibilities? What kind of therapeutic relationship is emerging? How do Western therapeutic notions of the private self intersect with Chinese understandings of the socially embedded self? What are the implications for these individual-level changes for Chinese society more generally?This research is important because it is addressing a worldwide phenomenon. By integrating psychology, psychiatry, and anthropology, the researcher will be able to illuminate the complex relationship among illness, culture, healing, and personhood in an increasingly interconencted world. By suggesting a culturally sensitive way of grappling with emotional disorders, this research has a transformative potential to improve mental health practice and policy in a country of increasing global significance.

加州大学戴维斯分校的张立博士将研究快速的社会经济转型对重塑精神生活和做人概念的影响。这项研究将在中国进行，中国市场改革的步伐令人窒息，不仅在经济和社会结构上，而且在中国公民的精神和情感生活上都产生了深刻的变化和断裂。面对日益激烈的竞争和压力，越来越多的中产阶级城市人转向专业的心理咨询和治疗，以应对他们的焦虑，精神困扰和个人问题。因此，后社会主义的中国提供了一个理想的环境，在这里我们可以探索一个正在世界范围内发生的现象。为了研究这种“内在革命”，张将关注中国新兴的心理治疗运动之一。这项研究将在中国西南部的昆明市进行。数据将通过社会科学方法的混合来收集，包括：咨询会议的参与者观察，与治疗师和客户的半结构化访谈，疾病叙述，媒体分析和档案研究。她的研究将解决以下问题：为什么今天的一些中国人寻求心理治疗，他们如何理解自己的经历？西方起源的心理治疗模式是如何改变和适应中国文化的？什么样的治疗关系正在出现？西方治疗学中关于私人自我的概念与中国人对社会嵌入自我的理解是如何交叉的？这些个人层面的变化对中国社会有何影响？这项研究很重要，因为它涉及一个世界性的现象。通过整合心理学，精神病学和人类学，研究人员将能够阐明疾病，文化，治疗和人格之间的复杂关系，在一个日益相互联系的世界。通过提出一种文化敏感的方式来应对情绪障碍，这项研究具有变革性的潜力，可以改善一个日益具有全球意义的国家的心理健康实践和政策。