ACKNOWLEDGEMENTSABOUT THE EDITORS AND CONTRIBUTORSINTRODUCTIONDavid E. Scharff and Sverre VarvinPART I: CHINESE CULTURE AND HISTORY RELEVANT TO MENTAL HEALTH CHAPTER ONE Idealising individual choice: work, love, and family in the eyes of young, rural Chinese Mette Halskov Hansen and Cuiming Pang CHAPTER TWO Psychoanalytically oriented psychotherapy and the Chinese self Antje Haag CHAPTER THREE China-a traumatised country? The aftermath of the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-1976) for the individual and for society Tomas Plankers CHAPTER FOUR The religious context of China's psycho-boom Hsuan-Ying Huang CHAPTER FIVE The encounter of psychoanalysis and Chinese culture Lin Tao CHAPTER SIX Yin yang philosophy and Chinese mental health Li Ming CHAPTER SEVEN Psychoanalysis meets China: transformative dialogue or monologue of the western voice? Jose Saporta DISCUSSION OF CHAPTER SEVEN 87 Sverre Varvin CHAPTER EIGHT The shibboleth of cross-cultural issues in psychoanalytic treatment Elise Snyder CHAPTER NINE Collective castration anxieties: an ethnopsychoanalytic perspective on relations between the sexes in China Alf Gerlach CHAPTER TEN Five things western therapists need to know for working with Chinese therapists and patients David E. ScharffPART II: THE DEVELOPMENT OF PSYCHOANALYSIS AND PSYCHOTHERAPY IN CHINA CHAPTER ELEVEN West-East differences in habits and ways of thinking: the influence on understanding and teaching psychoanalytic therapy Sverre Varvin and Bent Rosenbaum CHAPTER TWELVE The impact of psychic trauma on individuation and self-identity: how the psychic trauma of poverty affects individuation and self identity in the context of the Chinese family Yang Yunping CHAPTER THIRTEEN Working with Chinese patients: are there conflicts between Chinese culture and psychoanalysis? Zhong Jie CHAPTER FOURTEEN The development of psychoanalysis in China Shi Qijia CHAPTER FIFTEEN Transference and countertransference in a Chinese setting: reflections on a psychotherapeu