Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 8 Number 1 & 2
Book Details
- Publisher : Karnac Books
- Published : December 2025
- Cover : Paperback
- Pages : 230
- Category :
Forthcoming - Category 2 :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 98445
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This peer-reviewed journal proposes to explore the introduction of psychoanalysis, psychoanalytic therapy, and the wider application of psychoanalytic ideas into China. It aims to have articles authored by Chinese and Western contributors, to explore ideas that apply to the Chinese clinical population, cultural issues relevant to the practice of analysis and psychotherapy, and to the cultural interface between Western ideas underpinning psychoanalysis, and the richness of Chinese intellectual and philosophical ideas that analysis must encounter in the process of its introduction.
Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China features theoretical and clinical contributions, philosophical and cultural explorations, applications such as the analytic study of art, cinema and theatre, social aspects of analytic thought, and wider cultural and social issues that set the context for clinical practice.
Table of Contents
Editor’s introduction
David E. Scharff
A note from the incoming co-editor
Karyne Messina
SECTION I: History of psychoanalysis in China
From repression to resilience: A Chinese psychoanalytic legacy across generations
Ping Sun
SECTION II: Clinical contributions
Gaming the unconscious: The relational and social unconscious in a contemporary Chinese case study
Qiao Xiaomeng
Teaching and learning in cross-cultural clinical consultation
Sui Ailing (Elena) and Jill Savege Scharff
“I can’t hug my child”: A case study of intergenerational transmission of trauma in China
Wang Xiubing, Lin Yao, and Robert M. Gordon
Keeping silent as a technique
Zhao Chengzhi
The “teacher transference” in treating Chinese patients
He Song
A psychoanalytic schema of the heterogeneity between bipolar and unipolar depression, a study based on Karl Abraham’s contributions
Peng Xianjing
SECTION III: Cultural considerations
The single-child generation’s new life-orientation, female choice, and its implication for understanding China’s declining fertility
William Jankowiak and Shelly Volsche
The role of social media in shaping mental health discourse: A case study of China’s psychoanalysis and counselling narratives
Qiao Xiaomeng
Editor’s introduction to “Local beliefs and mental illness”
by Mao Zhikang
David E. Scharff
Local beliefs and mental illness: A case demonstrating the influence of Northeast China’s Baojiaxian on consultation with patients with mental illness
Mao Zhikang
SECTION IV: Philosophy and psychoanalysis
Virtual space and the body
Shan Bin
On Levinas’ criticism and misunderstanding of Freud’s view of eros
Wang Guangyao
Female sexuality: A comparison of Freud, Lacan, and Chinese thought—an analysis of “Pianpian” in Liaozhai Zhiyi
Wu Shuanglei
Reflections on symbolism and its clinical methodology
Huo Chuansong
SECTION V: The dream in literature and psychoanalysis
The “dream work” in the Dream of the Red Chamber: A perspective of psychoanalysis on the writing techniques of the Guiyou edition of The Story of the Stone
Wang Xiaodong
Notes on contributors
List of reviewers
Call for papers
Notes to contributors
About the Editor(s)
David E. Scharff, MD, is Chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association’s Committee on Family and Couple Psychoanalysis; Chair of the Board, Founder and former Director of the International Psychotherapy Institute, Washington, DC; and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China, and author and editor of numerous books and articles, including The Sexual Relationship, Object Relations Family Therapy (with Jill Savege Scharff), Object Relations Couple Therapy, The Interpersonal Unconscious, and Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy.
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