Overview
Creates guidelines that sufficiently reflect the illness and corresponding interventions
Presents a quantitative study and focuses on the life histories of selected individuals after being diagnosed with AIDS, as well as corresponding interventional mechanisms
Proposes a “Dying to Live” model for the self-restoration of infected persons, related interventional mechanisms, and a model that incorporates a range of spatial and temporal dimensions?
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This book adopts an approach based on relational psychoanalysis, developed in the USA in and since the 1990s and guided by the self-psychology championed by Kohut and the Post-Kohutians. How people infected with HIV/AIDS live their lives is a growing concern in China. The book, based on relational psychoanalysis, explores their self-restoration, and more specifically, how adopting an attitude of “dying to live” helps them face tremendous challenges in life. By interviewing selected individuals at a given organization, the author focuses on their life experiences and on corresponding interventional mechanisms.
The book’s three most important features are as follows: 1) its application of self-psychology by Heinz Kohut into the context of psychological intervention; 2) a wealth of qualitative data gathered through in-depth interviews; and 3) the author’s self-reflection and analysis. The book offers a valuable guide for graduate students, researchers, and policymakers alike.
By interviewing selected individuals at a given organization, the book focuses on the life histories of selected individuals after being diagnosed with AIDS (screening HIV positive) and on corresponding interventional mechanisms. Further, itemploys the self and self-object as key explanatory terms for the necessary psychotherapeutic interventions,and in order to create guidelines that sufficiently reflect the illness and corresponding interventions. Given its scope and focus, the book offers a valuable guide for graduate students, researchers, and policymakers alike.Authors and Affiliations
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Self-restoration of People Living with HIV/AIDS in China
Authors: Rongting Hou
Translated by: Hulin Zhao
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7413-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Behavioral Science and Psychology, Behavioral Science and Psychology (R0)
Copyright Information: Huazhong University of Science and Technology Press 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-7412-2Published: 28 October 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-7415-3Published: 28 October 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-7413-9Published: 28 October 2020
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 172
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Self and Identity, Psychotherapy and Counseling, Philosophy of Medicine, Medicine/Public Health, general