Abstract

VARVIN, Sverre; ROSENBAUM, Bent  and  ROMANI, Sandra Birger. Psychoanalysis in China: developments and challenges. Rev. bras. psicanál [online]. 2014, vol.48, n.1, pp.55-68. ISSN 0486-641X.

China is a fast developing country with growing need for psychiatric and psychotherapeutic services due to increase in mental suffering connected changes in society but also with traumatizing conditions in the past. Psychoanalytic understanding and psychoanalytic therapies has had growing interest among professionals and in the public. In this article we describe the development of psychoanalysis in China and some of the challenges involved in teaching psychoanalysis and training professionals in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy. Awareness of cultural differences between China and the West are underlined.

Keywords : psychoanalysis; psychoanalytic psychotherapy; China; culture.

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