Psychoanalysis in China
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- Publisher : Karnac Books
- Published : January 2014
- Category :
Psychoanalysis - Catalogue No : 94708
- ISBN 13 : 9781912691531
- ISBN 10 : 1912691531
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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.
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It is a challenge to describe how remarkable this book is. In the first place it provides a near comprehensive and inclusive review of psychoanalysis in contemporary China. Although many authors focus on particular issues, the sum of individual interests comprises a fascinating collective voice that reflects modern China. Unlike so many works by oriental and occidental writers interested in psychoanalysis, this new work does not promote an occidental agenda. The editors are to be congratulated for their remarkable skill in facilitating chapters that integrate oriental and occidental thinking. In that respect, this is a book that should become required reading for psychoanalysts in the East and the West for generations to come.
Christopher Bollas, author of China on the Mind and Catch Them Before They Fall: The Psychoanalysis of Breakdown
This fascinating book presents the most complete, enlightening, and up-to-date contribution on the new bridge between psychoanalysis and contemporary Chinese culture. Highly qualified and actively involved specialists, from both western countries and China, explore the complexity and richness of this growing, exciting exchange, which is now possible thanks to the significant shift in Chinese attitudes towards subjectivity. Whilst reading these pages, it is easy to deduce that this will not be a simple one-way intercultural process: we can envisage for the future a mutual cross-fertilisation between the most revolutionary western discoveries about the human mind and the immense, millenary depth of Chinese tradition and philosophy.
Stefano Bolognini, President, International Psychoanalytical Association
This book thoroughly demonstrates the latest developments of psychoanalysis in China. All of the foreign and Chinese contributors to the book are psychoanalysts and psychotherapists actively involved in the training, learning, and practising of psychoanalysis in China. They share and demonstrate their enthusiasm, experience, and thinking from various perspectives; the most commendable part of the book is the cultural perspective, and the contributions of psychoanalysis concerning the nature of human beings, mental health, and psychotherapy are formidable. However, with thousands of years of civilisation, the complexity of Chinese culture has a lot of special features. The practice of psychoanalysis in China presents a great collision between western and eastern cultures, and the experience and thinking of the authors offer important starting points for the development of useful theory, methods, and techniques for the development of mental health within the context of Chinese culture. Perhaps it will be most valuable in promoting the penetration of psychoanalysis into China, but China will also contribute new power to psychoanalysis around the world. This book is especially important because it witnesses this mutual process.
Jia Xiaoming, Professor, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing Institute of Technology, and Vice-Director, Psychoanalytic Committee of the China Association for Mental Health
The edited volume by David Scharff and Sverre Varvin is a wonderful new addition on the topic. Spanning some 30 short chapters, the book provides snap shots of the cultural, theoretical, and practical issues associated with introduction of psychoanalysis in China from the vantage points of both Western and Chinese participants.
Kris Yi PHD PsyD, 'Psychoanalytic Psychology', 2017, (34)(2):242-245
Table of Contents
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
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
INDEX
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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Sverre Varvin, MD, PhD, is a training and supervising analyst, and a past President of the Norwegian Psychoanalytic Society. He is senior researcher at the Norwegian centre for studies on violence and traumatic stress, affiliated to the University of Oslo, and his main research areas are the traumatisation and treatment of traumatised patients, traumatic dreams, and psychoanalytic training. He has held several positions in the IPA (e.g. Vice-president, Board representative, member of research committees), and is currently chair of the program committee for the next IPAC in Prague, and a member of the China Committee.
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