Chinese Perspectives on Cultural Psychiatry Psychological Disorders
This book presents a longitudinal study of cultural influence on psychiatric disorders, from late imperial China to contemporary China, drawing on both reviews and lab results to do so. While predominantly offering evidence of cultural influences on psych
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Chinese Perspectives on Cultural Psychiatry Psychological Disorders in “A Dream of Red Mansions” and Contemporary Society
Chinese Perspectives on Cultural Psychiatry
Wei Wang Editor
Chinese Perspectives on Cultural Psychiatry Psychological Disorders in “A Dream of Red Mansions” and Contemporary Society
Editor Wei Wang Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychiatry/School of Public Health Zhejiang University College of Medicine Hangzhou, China
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Preface
Cultural psychiatry is an important area in psychological medicine and in social science, and many problems in the field remain unclear. The cultural influence on psychological (psychiatric or mental) disorders has been a topic for a long time, and previous studies in this regard have taken primarily a comparative perspective, looking for differences between cultures such as those between Eastern and Western cultures. Nevertheless, few works have focused on the cultural origin and even fewer on the core of a culture and the relationship with psychological problems, especially in Chinese context. This book is proposed to fill the gap by inspecting the elements of Chinese culture and their fitness with Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs Theory (the biological and physiological needs, safety needs, social needs, esteem needs, self-actualization needs, and self-transcendence needs) and their involvements in the psychological disorders. We will propose a link between cultural influence
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