Full Description
The world is looking East. Whilst in the West psychoanalysis is fighting to maintain its position among the other therapies in a society which has less time for introspection and self-reflective thought, in Asia a new frontier is opening up: we are witnessing a surge of interest for psychoanalysis among the mental health professionals and among the younger generations, interest which is articulated and nuanced differently in the different Asian countries. In Asia and particularly in India, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and China, the development of psychoanalysis reflects separate socio-political historical contexts, each with a rich cultural texture and fuelled by the interest of a new generation of mental health professionals for psychoanalysis as a therapeutic method.
Contents
Foreword , INTRODUCTION , Conceptual Backdrop , Psychoanalysis and culture , Psychoanalysis and culture: Freud, Erikson, and beyond , The stranger and the strange: psychoanalytic reflections on meeting otherness , China , Psychoanalytic psychotherapy in the Chinese context: developments and challenges , Psychoanalysis on the China Road*: sense of trust in doubt , Slow psychoanalysis is helpful for fast developing China , Havoc comes from the mouth—working as a psychoanalyst in China , Working with Chinese patients: are there conflicts between Chinese culture and psychoanalysis? , Objectifying and de-objectifying the dead: the use of images in Chinese ancestor worship , Japan , Psychoanalysis in a "shame culture": a drama-based viewpoint , Issues of psychoanalysis in the twenty-first century: from some experiences in Japan , The complications of the perpetrator-victim relationship for Japanese children during World War Two: what can psychoanalysis contribute toward conciliation between China and Japan? , Korea , Korean culture and psychoanalysis , Feeling and thinking in English on the couch , Taiwan , The Formosa Model: an emerging tradition of developing psychoanalysis in Taiwan , Shame and losing face in Taiwanese culture: a clinical and cultural perspective , India , A personal journey into culture and psychoanalysis , The universal truth of myths reflected in psychoanalytic theory and practice , Concluding Overviews , The diffusion of psychoanalysis in China: otherness and transformations , Coming together in Beijing
