Self-restoration of People Living with HIV/AIDS in China

This book adopts an approach based on relational psychoanalysis, developed in the USA in and since the 1990s and guided by the self-psychology championed by Kohut and the Post-Kohutians. How people infected with HIV/AIDS live their lives is a growing conc

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Self-restoration of People Living with HIV/AIDS in China

Self-restoration of People Living with HIV/AIDS in China

Rongting Hou

Self-restoration of People Living with HIV/AIDS in China

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Rongting Hou Inner Mongolia University of Science and Technology Baotou, China Translated by Hulin Zhao Henan University of Chinese Medicine Zhengzhou, China

ISBN 978-981-15-7412-2 ISBN 978-981-15-7413-9 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7413-9

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Foreword

The book is based on the Ph.D. thesis of Hou Rongting. This English version is translated by Zhao Hulin from Henan University of Chinese Medicine. In guiding graduate students to write theses, I hold a basic belief that students must have something to say before they can write, and that writing must be supported by theoretical thinking before they can finish the writing. I want to explain two important concepts in this belief: having something to say (i.e., having substance) and having theoretical framework (i.e., how to say). Students who claim to follow the school system but have nothing other than their courses and lessons are usually not chosen by our institute. In other words, the chosen graduate students must have some life experiences worth discussing, for instance, their own experiences, or their relationships with others. This is called having something