• China on the Couch: Xi Jinping's Psy-boom

  • Apr 1 2025
  • Length: 48 mins
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China on the Couch: Xi Jinping's Psy-boom

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  • In our third episode on beliefs and ideologies, we explore China’s newfound enthusiasm for psychiatry. Counselling was only registered as a profession in 2001 yet has seen a massive boom under Xi Jinping. The psy-boom is such that even party branch meetings are doing mindfulness exercises, and practitioners are trying to indigenise counselling practices. There’s plenty to work on; the 2022 China Mental Health Survey found seven percent of the population were suffering from depression, half of them schoolchildren. To explore what’s drawing China to the couch, Louisa and Graeme are joined by Yiying Xiong, a counsellor and associate professor at John Hopkins University, Barclay Bram, an audio journalist at the Economist and fellow at the Asia Society, and medical anthropologist Hsuan-Ying Huang, from Taiwan’s National Yang Ming Chiao Tung University.

    Image: c/- Wikimedia Commons, Sigmund Freud's Couch, London, 2004.

    Episode transcripts are available at: https://ciw.anu.edu.au/podcasts/little-red-podcast

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