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Book SynopsisThe introduction of psychoanalysis to China over the last twenty years brings a clash between Eastern and Western philosophical backgrounds. Chinese patients, therapists, and trainees struggle with assumptions inherent in an analytic attitude steeped in Western ideas of individualism that are often at odds with a Chinese Confucian ethic of respect for the family and the work group. The situation is further complicated by the rapid evolution of Chinese culture itself, emerging from years of trauma, new economics, and the one-child policy of the last generation that has introduced a new Chinese brand of individualism and new family structure that are not equivalent to those of the West. This volume breaks new ground in exploring these issues and challenges to the introduction of analytic therapies into China, not only from the viewpoint of Western teachers, but also from Chinese teachers, clinicians, anthropologists, and observers.
Table of ContentsACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS
INTRODUCTION
David E. Scharff and Sverre Varvin
PART I: CHINESE CULTURE AND HISTORY RELEVANT TO MENTAL HEALTH
CHAPTER ONE
Idealising individual choice: work, love, and family in the eyes of young, rural Chinese
Mette Halskov Hansen and Cuiming Pang
CHAPTER TWO
Psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy and the Chinese self
Antje Haag
CHAPTER THREE
China—a traumatised country? The aftermath of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966–1976) for the individual and for society
Tomas Plänkers
CHAPTER FOUR
The religious context of China’s psycho-boom
Hsuan-Ying Huang
CHAPTER FIVE
The encounter of psychoanalysis and Chinese culture
Lin Tao
CHAPTER SIX
Yin yang philosophy and Chinese mental health
Li Ming
CHAPTER SEVEN
Psychoanalysis meets China: transformative dialogue or monologue of the western voice?
José Saporta
DISCUSSION OF CHAPTER SEVEN
Sverre Varvin
CHAPTER EIGHT
The shibboleth of cross-cultural issues in psychoanalytic treatment
Elise Snyder
CHAPTER NINE
Collective castration anxieties: an ethnopsychoanalytic perspective on relations between the sexes in China
Alf Gerlach
CHAPTER TEN
Five things western therapists need to know for working with Chinese therapists and patients
David E. Scharff
PART II: THE DEVELOPMENT OF PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHOTHERAPY IN CHINA
CHAPTER ELEVEN
West–East differences in habits and ways of thinking: the influence on understanding and teaching psychoanalytic therapy
Sverre Varvin and Bent Rosenbaum
CHAPTER TWELVE
The impact of psychic trauma on individuation and self-identity: how the psychic trauma of poverty affects individuation and self-identity in the context of the Chinese family
Yang Yunping
CHAPTER THIRTEEN
Working with Chinese patients: Are there conflicts between Chinese culture and psychoanalysis?
Zhong Jie
CHAPTER FOURTEEN
The development of psychoanalysis in China
Shi Qijia
CHAPTER FIFTEEN
Transference and countertransference in a Chinese setting: reflections on a psychotherapeutic process
Wang Zhiyan and Anders Zachrisson
CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Sleeping Beauty’s dream: when a myth from the East meets a tale from the West, a new story is born on the TV screen, one that can be understood psychoanalytically
Irmgard Dettbarn
DISCUSSION OF CHAPTER SIXTEEN
Rainer Rehberger and Sverre Varvin
PART III: DEVELOPING TRAINING IN CHINA
CHAPTER SEVENTEEN
The development of psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in China
Sverre Varvin and Alf Gerlach
CHAPTER EIGHTEEN
The development of psychoanalytic psychotherapy at Shanghai Mental Health Centre
Xu Yong, Qiu Jianyin, Chen Jue, and Xiao Zeping
CHAPTER NINETEEN
Introducing psychoanalytic therapy into China: the CAPA experience
Ralph E. Fishkin and Lana P. Fishkin
CHAPTER TWENTY
German psychoanalysts in China and the start of group therapy work
Alf Gerlach
CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE
Research on the development of Chinese psychoanalysts and psychotherapists
Li Yawen
CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO
Dynamic psychotherapy: a model for teaching and supervision in China
Siri Erika Gullestad
CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE
Learning, translating, and practising analytic psychotherapy in China
Gao Jun
CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR
Learning analytic psychotherapy as a student and psychiatric resident in Shanghai
Qi Wei
CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE
Assessment and early treatment in psychoanalysis in China
Liu Yiling
CHAPTER TWENTY-SIX
Navigating the uncharted psychoanalytic seascape between East and West: a pilot project with Hainan Anning Hospital that cultivated mutual learning
Caroline Sehon
PART IV: MARRIAGE AND MARITAL THERAPY IN CHINA AND TAIWAN
CHAPTER TWENTY-SEVEN
The impact of Chinese cultures on a marital relationship
Jill Savege Scharff and David E. Scharff
CHAPTER TWENTY-EIGHT
Cultural factors and projective identification in understanding a Chinese couple
Shi Qijia and David E. Scharff
CHAPTER TWENTY-NINE
The intergenerational and cultural transmission of trauma in Chinese couples: treatment considerations
Janine Wanlass
CHAPTER THIRTY
Conflict between extended families and couple identity in Taiwan—a psychoanalytic exploration
Hui-Wen Teng
EPILOGUE
David E. Scharff and Sverre Varvin
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