Marriage and Family in Modern China: A Psychoanalytic Exploration

ISBN-13: 9780367569488 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 316 str.

David E. Scharff

Opis

This book is a groundbreaking psychoanalytic examination of how 70 years of widespread social change have transformed the intimacies of life in modern China. It offers new insight into Chinese families for all those interested in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and in the intricacies of Chinese domestic life.

Spis treści

PART 1 Marriage and Family in the Context of Contemporary China 1 Introduction 2 A Chinese Marriage: History, Discontinuity and Trauma 3 An Introduction to Psychoanalytic Understanding of Families and Couples 4 The Hidden Chinese Revolution 5 Changing Values in Contemporary China 6 Trauma, Resilience and the Family PART 2 Marriage in China Today 7 Marriage in China: Strengths and Vulnerabilities 8 The Lingering Legacy of Parental Influence 9 Sex and Sexuality in China 10 Extramarital Affairs, Sexual and Emotional 11 Beginning Treatment of a Couple Who Presented with an Extramarital Affair 12 Divorce PART 3 The Changing Face of Families 13 The Young and Changing Family 14 Families of Young Adolescents 15 Older Adolescents, Youth and Two-Child Families 16 A Couple Therapy 17 China in Light of COVID-19 18 A Return to Our Questions

O autorze

David E. Scharff, MD, is Co-Founder and Former Director of the International Psychotherapy Institute; Chair of the International Psychoanalytic Association’s Committee on Family and Couple Psychoanalysis; Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University and the UNiforemd at the Services University of the Health Sciences; and editor-in-chief of Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China. He directs training programs in analytic couple and family therapy in Beijing and Moscow.