"Hallucinations of the "China Dream

Forbidden Voice, Articulation, and Schizophrenia in China

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ID4564428
AuthorsJie Yang (0000-0001-6912-4966, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Simon Fraser University Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada, corresponding author)
Year2023
Volume42
Issue3
Pages250-263
Publication date2023-04-03
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueMedical Anthropology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0145-9740 • E-ISSN: 1545-5882
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/01459740.2023.2186230
PMID36961411
OpenAlexW4360812077
LanguageEN
Citations received3
References cited21

I analyze the contents of voices heard by people diagnosed with schizophrenia in China. Rather than pathologizing these contents as symptoms of psychiatric disease, I examine them as a form of disinhibited voice and articulation. Drawing on the literature on ideological reification and articulation, I show that the specificity and contents of heard voices are connotatively or evocatively linked to the "China Dream," particularly ideologies of the Dream that distort reality. Through these voices, those with schizophrenia articulate their dissent or divergence from the illusory collective world depicted by "China Dream" discourse

Articulation (sociology · Audiology · China · Dream · Political science · Psychiatry · Psychotherapist · Schizophrenia (object-oriented programming · History · Medicine · Mental Health and Psychiatry · Mental Health Treatment and Access · Psychology · Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments

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