Chinese Characters and Perspectives: The Social Construction of Gender
Philosopher Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein once said: ‘The limits of my language are the limit of my world.” Language is t…
Alone and Together: Chinese Culture, Tradition and Language
I was born after the 1980s, in a small city in northern China. China has a tradition of togetherness (collectivism)—yet I fe…
The Breeze of Freedom
One of my colleagues recently left her long term residence in China and is now living in a country that is currently much le…
Psychology, Neo-Sociopsychology, and Paths to a Better, Less Prejudiced Society
When it comes to psychology in general, I am a fan. I have a degree in it. At its best, psychology is an honest attempt to h…
A PALLID HOPELESSNESS: REFLECTIONS ON ALIENATION
Conceive a man by nature and misfortune prone to a pallid hopelessness…. -Herman Melville, “Bartleby the Scriven…
Personality Disorders, Attachment, and National Trauma: A Psychosociological Approach to Psychodynamic Therapy
Can psychotherapy prevent fascism? We can only answer that question by exploring the dynamics of fascism and group narcissis…
Transforming and Managing Anxiety: I. The Nature of Containment
In this essay I look specifically at the derailment into authoritarianism and at the multiple ways in which this derailment …
Studio Nine: The Sleep Room
We asked participants to watch the disturbing movie, “The Sleep Room” which is based on the real-life Cameron experiments co…
The Work and Life of Women: The Dynamics of Individualism and Power
[Note: This essay builds on work that was published in Rosalind Sun and William Bergquist, The Word for World is Work. This …
The Nature of True Freedom III: Creating A Shared Image of the Future
Positive freedom to do something, in turn, is sustained only if a society has defined or is in the process of continually de…