Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China: Volume 8 Number 1 & 2

Editor : David E. Scharff

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
Paperback
£31.50
RRP : £35.00
save £3.50
This item is not yet published. You may pre-order a copy and we will send it out when it becomes available.
Free UK Delivery over £25
Add to basket
Add to wishlist

There are currently no reviews
Be the first to review

Leave a review

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.

More titles by David E. Scharff

Customer Reviews

Our customers have not yet reviewed this title. Be the first add your own review for this title.

You may also like

Bion’s Vertices: On Truth and Lies

Bion’s Vertices: On Truth and Lies

Tomasz Fortuna

Price £27.99

save £7.00

Sign up for our new titles email   Sign up to our postal mailing list   Sign up for postal updates