Teaching Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in China

Scharff, Jill Savege

doi:10.1080/00797308.2022.2107376

The Psychoanalytic Study of the Child

2022

DOI: 10.1080/00797308.2022.2107376

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Teaching Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in China

Jill Savege Scharff

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Empty Heart Disease: Teaching and Learning in China

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2024

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Drawing on 15 years of experience teaching psychoanalytic theory and therapy primarily from an object relations perspective to Chinese psychotherapists onsite and online, the authors present their learning about Chinese culture, social history, and philosophy, and the Chinese way of communicating about emotional experience. Their essay is imbued with the Chinese use of metaphor and psychosomatic symbolization, particularly involving the heart. They elaborate on the Chinese concept of Empty Heart Disease, comparing and contrasting it to Western concepts from literature, sociology and psychoanalysis, namely spleen, anomie, dead mother, and schizoid, empty, false, and narcissistic self-states. They expand upon and extend the empty heart concept to various age groups and symptom presentations in China, illustrated by a vignette from individual psychoanalysis with a woman and three vignettes from applied psychoanalysis of a couple with no intimacy, a child with an obsessive psychosomatic symptom, and an adolescent school dropout who was self-harming and suicidal in response to academic pressure. Having emphasized the connection between symptom presentations and social life and times, they discuss the impact of trauma, its transgenerational transmission in China, and the impact of unprecedented economic growth and social change on individuals, couples and families.

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Empty Heart Disease: Teaching and Learning in China

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2024

J Am Psychoanal Assoc

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Teaching Child and Adolescent Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in China

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