Transforming Emotions with Chinese Medicine

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A comprehensive account of the Chinese medicine physician's practice of mental care. The book prepares the reader for the ethnographic encounter with an introduction to the history and contemporary practice of Chinese Medicine. (2007) 191pp

Explores how Chinese medicine deals with emotional disorders.

Chinese medicine approaches emotions and emotional disorders differently than the Western biomedical model. Transforming Emotions with Chinese Medicine offers an ethnographic account of emotion-related disorders as they are conceived, talked about, experienced, and treated in clinics of Chinese medicine in contemporary China.

While Chinese medicine (zhongyi) has been predominantly categorized as herbal therapy that treats physical disorders, it is also well known that Chinese patients routinely go to zhongyi clinics for treatment of illness that might be diagnosed as psychological or emotional in the West.

Through participant observation, interviews, case studies, and zhongyi publications, both classic and modern, the author explores the Chinese notion of “body-person,” unravels cultural constructions of emotion, and examines the way Chinese medicine manipulates body-mind connections.

Table of Contents

Tables
Illustrations

1. Introduction

2. Chinese Medicine: Continuity and Modern Transformations

3. The Chinese World of Shenti (Body-Person)

4. Contextualizing Qingzhi (Emotions)

5. Understanding zhongyi Clinical Classification

6. Manifestations of yu (Stagnations)

7. Clinical Process of tiao (Attuning)

8. Conclusion

Date reviewed

16/06/2010

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