Chinese Perspectives on Cultural Psychiatry: Psychological Disorders in “A Dream of Red Mansions” and Contemporary Society

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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 psychiatric disorders from a Chinese perspective, it will also be of global benefit since “the national exemplifies the international.” It presents the Chinese “emic” components of culture, including Chinese personality traits, Chinese forms of emotional regulation, and Chinese styles of family structure and function, which will stimulate international interest and research in related areas. The intended readership includes cultural psychiatrists and psychologists, family therapists, personality psychologists, literature-related researchers, and members of the general public who are interested in cultures expressed in fictions. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvii Hierarchical Needs and Psychological Disorders in China (Hongying Fan, Wei Wang)....Pages 1-19 Societal Culture from Late Imperial to Contemporary China: As Indirectly Reflected in A Dream of Red Mansions (Guorong Ma, Mufan Wang, Wei Wang)....Pages 21-39 Personality Traits Characterized by the Adjectives in A Dream of Red Mansions (Guorong Ma, Junpeng Zhu, Wanzhen Chen, Wei Wang)....Pages 41-56 Narrations of Personality Disorders in A Dream of Red Mansions (Hongying Fan, Wanzhen Chen, Wei Wang)....Pages 57-74 Cultural Contribution to Personality Disorders in China (Jiawei Wang, Wei Wang)....Pages 75-91 Personality Traits in Contemporary China: A Lexical Approach (Xu Shao, Hao Chai, Wei Wang)....Pages 93-113 Personality Disorders Predicted by the Chinese Adjective Descriptors of Personality (Guorong Ma, Hongying Fan, Wei Wang)....Pages 115-128 Adjectival Descriptors for Antisocial Personality Trait in Chinese Culture (Chu Wang, Shaohua Yu, Wei Wang)....Pages 129-144 Bipolar Disorders in Chinese Culture: From a Perspective of Harmony (Chanchan Shen, Yanli Jia, Wei Wang)....Pages 145-165 Predicting Affective States of Bipolar Disorder by the Chinese Adjective Descriptors of Personality (Bingren Zhang, Junpeng Zhu, Wei Wang)....Pages 167-179 Chinese Family Contributions to Psychological Disorders (Hongying Fan, You Xu, Wei Wang)....Pages 181-192 A Theoretical Framework Explaining Chinese Cultural Contributions to Psychological Disorders (Hongying Fan, Guorong Ma, Wei Wang)....Pages 193-196 Back Matter ....Pages 197-253