Haochun Sun

Psychiatrist based in Kaohsiung, Taiwan.

Training in medicine and anthropology at National Taiwan University.

Current work moves across psychiatry, clinical anthropology, self-harm, community care, symbolic infrastructures, and the problem of return after rupture.

Works at the interface of:

• clinic and anthropology
• suffering and institution
• language and embodiment
• archive and relation
• infrastructure and subjectivity

Maintains:

• haochunsun.net — essays, memos, archives
• 不出聲不說話不讀書不出現也行讀書會 — long-term reading group and holding infrastructure

Research and writing interests include:

• self-harm and containment failure
• clinical ecology
• psychiatry after the collapse of the biopsychosocial model
• symbolic and institutional routing
• culture, mind, and infrastructure
• community psychiatry and peer-support fields
• return-capacity after rupture

Current trajectory:

• building a field-based clinical anthropology
• developing dimensional approaches to self-harm and crisis transition
• constructing low-pressure infrastructures for thought, relation, and return
• preparing longer-form writing and future doctoral work

Influences include:
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Pierre Bourdieu, Michel Foucault, Donald Winnicott, Jacques Lacan, Bernard Stiegler, and the Comaroffs.

Contact:
haochunsun@gmail.com