Breathing Spaces Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China

Name: Breathing Spaces Qigong, Psychiatry, and Healing in China
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ISBN: 9780231502214

ISBN-10: 0231502214

ISBN-13: 9780231502214

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Authors: Nancy N. Chen

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The Charismatic Form of Healing Called Qigong, based on meditative breathing exercises, has achieved enormous popularity in China during the last two decades. Qigong served a critical social organizational function, as practitioners formed new informal networks, sometimes on an international scale, at a time when China was shifting from state-subsidized medical care to for-profit market medicine. The emergence of new psychological states deemed to be deviant led the Chinese state to "medicalize" certain forms while championing scientific versions of qigong. By contrast, qigong continues to be promoted outside China as a traditional healing practice. Breathing Spaces brings to life the…

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List price: $35.99
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Publication date: 6/4/2003
Pages: 256
Language: English



Preface


Acknowledgments



Introduction



Fever



Riding the Tiger



Qigong Deviation or Psychosis



Chinese Psychiatry and the Search for Order



Mandate of Science



Transnational Qigong



Suffering and Healing


Glossary


Notes


Bibliography


Index