Factors Affecting the Understanding and Use of Psychoanalysis in Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Taiwan

Busiol, Diego

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“…Less has been written about the state of psychoanalysis in Hong Kong and Taiwan than in Mainland China. In fact, there is little or no psychoanalysis in Hong Kong, a situation explored by Busiol (). Whereas most Western psychotherapies are practiced in Hong Kong, analysis is simply not well recognized, Busiol found, although it is not seen as incompatible with local culture.…”

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Psychoanalysis in China: an Essay on the Recent Literature in English

Scharff¹

2016

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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Using extensive quotation, the author reviews the introduction and current state of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in China from the vantage point of recent publications in English. Psychoanalysis was briefly introduced to China before the Communist era, then forbidden, and has experienced an accelerated reintroduction since the late 1980s. The author briefly summarizes the cultural and historical background of China relevant to the introduction of psychoanalysis, the traumatic history of China, and the deep structure of thought and philosophical differences from Western culture that challenge a simple imposition of psychoanalytic ideas and practice, and some psychological effects of rapid cultural change throughout China. Training programs in China, the general enthusiasm for analysis among the Chinese, and a number of notable contributions by Western and Chinese authors are discussed. Also surveyed are the use of distance technology for training and treatment, the personal experience of Chinese senior and junior colleagues, and ongoing challenges to the continuing growth of psychoanalysis and analytic psychotherapy in China.

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Psychoanalysis in China: an Essay on the Recent Literature in English

Scharff¹

2016

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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Psychoanalysis and the Challenges of Disciplinary Exportation: Notes from the African “Periphery” on the Method/Theory Distinction

Barratt¹

2018

The Psychoanalytic Review

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This paper briefly reports on the current expansion of opportunities for clinical education in psychoanalysis in southern Africa, various regions of Asia, and Iran. It is a preliminary reconsideration of whether the disciplinary export of psychoanalysis is another egregious exercise in neo-colonialism, as contrasted with its possibly liberatory significance. The author argues that much of the discussion around the universality of many theoretical propositions needs to be reformulated. For example, the controversies over the Oedipus complex have typically been articulated in terms of the effects of specific social arrangements, familial structures, and styles of maternal and paternal functioning, rather than in terms of the universal-but with much cultural variation in its implementation-incest taboo. It is argued that dissemination of the psychoanalytic method (and the four coordinates that follow from it) may be desirable, but in ways the export of the hermeneutic assumptions of certain theoretical models is not.

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Factors Affecting the Understanding and Use of Psychoanalysis in Hong Kong, Mainland China, and Taiwan

Cited by 2 publications

References 50 publications

Psychoanalysis in China: an Essay on the Recent Literature in English

Psychoanalysis in China: an Essay on the Recent Literature in English

Psychoanalysis and the Challenges of Disciplinary Exportation: Notes from the African “Periphery” on the Method/Theory Distinction

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