Description
Book SynopsisPsychoanalysis took root in many countries around the world in the twentieth century, but China has special significance. It was, of course, the largest country from which analysis was completely excluded, from 1949 until the Chinese opening up began in the 1980s. It was not only the banning of psychoanalytic thought that marked China in this period. There was also an absence of an effective mental health system during times of great need in China because of war, famine, industrial collapse, enormous population growth, and changes in social structure. This was followed with further changes in family structure through the one child policy, new policies of entrepreneurship, economic growth, urbanisation, and increasing exposure to the West.
This journal is conceived as a meeting place of cultures, as a place in which the issues of this important world encounter can be documented and examined. It is intended to be an intercultural journal in which theory and clinical experience can be presented and discussed. At a practical level, the editorial board is composed equally of eminent Chinese and Western colleagues who share an interest in the introduction and development of psychoanalysis in China. It contains articles from both Chinese and Western contributors, with discussion of ideas, and is a must-read for those with an interest in the development of psychoanalytic therapy in China.
Table of ContentsEDITORIAL INTRODUCTION
David E. Scharff
ARTICLES
From Psychotherapy to Psycho-Boom: A Historical Overview of Psychotherapy in China
Huang Hsuan-Ying
Brief Intervention with a Chinese Family
Jill Savege Scharff and David E. Scharff
A Commentary on “Brief Intervention with a Chinese Family”, by Jill and David Scharff
Gao Jun
Projective Identification in Group Therapy in China
Xu Yong
Somatic Countertransference: A Chinese Perspective
Adrienne Margarian
Practising Analytical Psychology in East Asia: A Post-Jungian Italian Perspective
Marta Tibaldi
The Core Element of Sandplay Therapy: Analytic Atmosphere
Cai Chenghou
‘Xie Yi Painting as a Culture of Therapy’: Part 1 – Introduction
Richard Wu
Individual Development of Psychotherapists’ and Practitioners’ Motivation
Shi Qijia
SPECIAL SECTION ON DISTANCE ANALYSIS AND PSYCHOTHERAPY
Editor’s Introduction
Teleanalysis: Problems, Limitations and Opportunities
Lin Tao
Skype as the Uncanny Third
Irmgard Dettbarn
Not So Lost in Translation: Supervising Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Candidates in China
Lycia Alexander-Guerra
Psychotherapy in China: Historical Context and the Future
Li Zhen and Li Hongya
BOOK REVIEWS
Introduction
by José Saporta
China on the Mind by Christopher Bollas
Reviewed by Almatea Kluzer Usuelli
A Cultural Approach to Discourse by Shi-xu
Reviewed by Alf Gerlach
Psychoanalysis in China edited by David E. Scharff and
Sverre Varvin
Reviewed by Yuan Qi
The Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith
in the New China by Evan Osnos
Reviewed by Caroline Sehon
EVENT REVIEW
Presentations, Thoughts, and Reflections on the International Conference “Ronald Fairbairn and the Object Relations Tradition”
by Xing Xiaochun
