Culture and Psychotherapy

Author: Zeng Wenxing
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Publish Date: 2002-06-01
Features: This is the tenth book in the "Popular Series on Psychotherapy," serving as a summary volume. The book first clarifies the definition of culture, systematically and comprehensively analyzing how traditional thinking and concepts relate to mental health. It then discusses how to develop models and methods of psychotherapy suitable for Chinese culture and its people. Broadly speaking, when implementing psychotherapy in different cultural environments, necessary revisions and adjustments must be made at technical, theoretical, and philosophical levels. The primary focus of this book is on theoretical and philosophical considerations and discussions. The book has several distinctive features, including inviting specialized scholars to contribute chapters on specific topics such as Confucian and Taoist traditional thinking, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) philosophy, everyday idioms, and the situation of ethnic minorities. To enhance clinical insights, it also incorporates case analyses of culturally relevant psychotherapy. This includes cross-cultural psychological counseling provided to ethnic minorities within the country and actual case experiences encountered in different cultural settings. This is the tenth book in the "Popular Series on Psychotherapy," serving as a summary volume. The book first clarifies the definition of culture, systematically and comprehensively analyzing how traditional thinking and concepts relate to mental health. It then discusses how to develop models and methods of psychotherapy suitable for Chinese culture and its people. Broadly speaking, when implementing psychotherapy in different cultural environments, necessary revisions and adjustments must be made at technical, theoretical, and philosophical levels. The primary focus of this book is on theoretical and philosophical considerations and discussions. The book has several distinctive features, including inviting specialized scholars to contribute chapters on specific topics such as Confucian and Taoist traditional thinking, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) philosophy, everyday idioms, and the situation of ethnic minorities. To enhance clinical insights, it also incorporates case analyses of culturally relevant psychotherapy. This includes cross-cultural psychological counseling provided to ethnic minorities within the country and actual case experiences encountered in different cultural settings.