{"title":"Alice in Wonderland","authors":"R. Josselson","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197512579.003.0004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197512579.003.0004","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter details the author’s interactions with the wider Chinese society and her efforts to understand what she saw and experienced. She tried to understand Chinese history through Chinese eyes, putting aside her Western view. Authentic Chinese food was new to her and she was impressed by Beijing as an ultramodern city. A visit to a Chinese home gave her a view of Chinese family life. The author learned that “speaking English” has levels and that one can read English without knowing how it sounds. She also came to appreciate the beautiful sound of the erhu, a musical instrument that she hadn’t previously encountered.","PeriodicalId":176974,"journal":{"name":"Narrative and Cultural Humility","volume":"15 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116154022","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Political Is Personal","authors":"R. Josselson","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197512579.003.0009","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197512579.003.0009","url":null,"abstract":"The author tried to make sense of the Chinese political world from their point of view. Their narrative of Chinese history was unlike any she had ever encountered and this chapter details her effort to empathically understand how they viewed the world, in particular how they related to democratic ideas. Chinese fears of chaos and disunity, born of their history, are central to their political organization. As the author tried to find common philosophical ground with the Chinese students, they labelled her a Daoist. They understood her approach to therapy as counseling action through inaction and stressing values of compassion, moderation, and humility, all quite similar to Daoist teaching.","PeriodicalId":176974,"journal":{"name":"Narrative and Cultural Humility","volume":"2014 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"121397341","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Beyond Dependency","authors":"R. Josselson","doi":"10.1093/oso/9780197512579.003.0012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197512579.003.0012","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter details what the Chinese therapists leaned from years of study with us and summarizes some of the papers they wrote for a conference they held about group therapy in China. The newly trained group therapists began to feel confident in their own competence and demonstrated their understanding of the theory and technique of group therapy. Their papers stress their awareness of the cultural differences contained in the permission for greater emotional expressiveness. They wrote about group cohesion and the uses of therapist self-disclosure. Existential factors of taking responsibility for one’s life also figured prominently in their understanding of group therapy.","PeriodicalId":176974,"journal":{"name":"Narrative and Cultural Humility","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-11-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"130992371","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}