Reflections on My Psycho-Boom Research: Navigating Multiplicity in China’s Age of Prosperity
▲Date: 2025.04.15,1-3 pm
▲Venue: R802,8F, Teaching & Research Building, Shuang Ho Campus, TMU
▲Speaker: Dr. Hsuan-Ying Huang
Associate Professor, Department of Medical Humanities and Education, National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University
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Abstract
The recent rise of psychotherapy has become a key area of inquiry within China anthropology. In this presentation, I reflect on my long-term research on this phenomenon, commonly known as “psycho-boom.” I review the salient methodological choices I made, the significant insights gained from different periods of ethnographic fieldwork, and my ongoing scholarly dialogues during my foray into this “world of multiplicity” (Huang 2018: 387) that took shape in China’s self-acclaimed “age of prosperity.” This reflective account aims not only to demystify the research process but also to invite graduate students to engage with the critical reasoning central to the social and cultural studies of medicine.