Psychoanalysis in China / by David E. Scharff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

E. Scharff, David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939.

Freud, Sigmund.

Psychoanalysis and literature--China.

Psychoanalysis and literature.

Chinese literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Chinese literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (353 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Boca Raton, FL : Routledge, an imprint of Taylor and Francis, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The 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 groupages 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, from the viewpoint of Western teachers, and Chinese teachers, clinicians, anthropologists and observers.

Contents:

COVER; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; ABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORS; INTRODUCTION; PART I CHINESE CULTURE AND HISTORY RELEVANT TO MENTAL HEALTH; CHAPTER ONE Idealizing individual choice: work, love, and family in the eyes of young, rural Chinese; CHAPTER TWO Psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy and the Chinese self; CHAPTER THREE China- a traumatized country? The aftermath of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) for the individual and for society; CHAPTER FOUR The religious context of China's psycho-boom; CHAPTER FIVE The encounter of psychoanalysis and Chinese culture

CHAPTER SIX Yin yang philosophy and Chinese mental health CHAPTER SEVEN Psychoanalysis meets China: transformative dialogue or monologue of the western voice?; DISCUSSION OF CHAPTER SEVEN; CHAPTER EIGHT The shibboleth of cross-cultural issues in psychoanalytic treatment; CHAPTER NINE Collective castration anxieties: an ethnopsychoanalytic perspective on relations between the sexes in China; CHAPTER TEN Five things western therapists need to know for working with Chinese therapists and patients; 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 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; CHAPTER THIRTEEN Working with Chinese patients: Are there conflicts between Chinese culture and psychoanalysis?; CHAPTER FOURTEEN The development of psychoanalysis in China

CHAPTER FIFTEEN Transference and counter transference in a Chinese setting: reflections on a psychotherapeutic process 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; DISCUSSION OF CHAPTER SIXTEEN; PART III DEVELOPING TRAINING IN CHINA; CHAPTER SEVENTEEN The development of psychodynamic psychotherapy and psychoanalysis in China; CHAPTER EIGHTEEN The development of psychoanalytic psychotherapy at Shanghai Mental Health Centre

CHAPTER NINETEEN Introducing psychoanalytic therapy into China: the CAPA experience CHAPTER TWENTY German psychoanalysts in China and the start of group therapy work; CHAPTER TWENTY-ONE Research on the development of Chinese psychoanalysts and psychotherapists; CHAPTER TWENTY-TWO Dynamic psychotherapy: a model for teaching and supervision in China; CHAPTER TWENTY-THREE Learning, translating, and practicing analytic psychotherapy in China; CHAPTER TWENTY-FOUR Learning analytic psychotherapy as a student and psychiatric resident in Shanghai

CHAPTER TWENTY-FIVE Assessment and early treatment in psychoanalysis in China

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed September 16, 2014).

ISBN:

0-429-90359-6

0-367-10130-0

0-429-47882-8

1-78241-119-4

9780429478826

OCLC:

933280577