Title Self-restoration of people living with HIV/AIDS in China / Rongting Hou

Published Singapore : Springer, 2021

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Description 1 online resource Contents 1. Introduction -- 2. Governance of AIDS and actions taken -- 3. The relational psychoanalysis : the way of relationship construction and deepening treatment -- 4. Mutual influence of the infected -- 5. Crossing the river with a stone : the exploration of infecting love with love -- 6. Self-restoration in relationship co-construction -- 7. Re-exploration of self-restoration and intervention mechanism Summary 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 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed January 19, 2021) Subject AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- China AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- China -- Psychology AIDS (Disease) -- Patients -- Psychology AIDS (Disease) -- Patients Counseling Identity (Psychology) Medicine Medicine -- Philosophy Psychotherapy Self China Form Electronic book ISBN 9789811574139 9811574138

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