Psychoanalysis in China

This volume breaks new ground in exploring the issues and challenges of the introduction of analytic therapies into China, not only from the viewpoint of Western teachers, but also from Chinese teachers, clinicians, anthropologists, and observers.

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 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.

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 Plankers 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? Jose 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,

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

• Edited by David E. Scharff
• Edited by Sverre Varvin

'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

'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 practice 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

'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. While 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

'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’