Intimate Relationships in China in the Light of Depth Psychology

In Intimate Relationships in China in the Light of Depth Psychology: A Study of Gender and Integrity, Huan Wang presents an overview of Jungian ideas as they apply to gender roles and relationships in contemporary Chinese culture. Moving beyond a Western interpretation of key concepts, Wang attempts to understand and deal with the difficulties of contemporary marriages in a rapidly changing society, investigating how young Chinese couples have been affected by traditional values, Westernisation, and the one-child policy. Wang also discusses how depth psychology has developed and been applied in China, highlighting how it differs in Chinese and Western settings and the problems and achievements Chinese people have faced. She concludes that the Chinese psyche today is experiencing a transition from the compliance of collectivism to the awareness of individuation, and that the rediscovery of the notion of integrity will help Chinese therapists to find their way, make young Chinese people independent individuals, and bring a new approach to their marriages. This is the first time such issues have been profoundly and comprehensively discussed in a Chinese context. It will be an invaluable resource for analytical psychologists, psychotherapists, and marriage and family and couple therapists working in China or with Chinese clients. It will also be of great interest to academics and students of Jungian and post-Jungian studies and to anyone interested in the psyche of contemporary China.

Huan Wang, Ph.D., is a researcher and graduate of the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, UK.

Chapter 1: Introduction; Chapter 2: The Notions of Femininity and Maculinity and Men and Women in China; Chapter 3: The History of Developing Psychoanalysis and Analytical Psychology in China; Chapter 4: The Applicability of Analytical Psychology in China: How a Western Psychological Lens Might Be Adapted in the East; Chapter 5: Experiences, Disappointments and Expectations: Interviews with Young Urban Chinese Couples; Chapter 6: The Peony Pavilion as a Picture of Sexual Individuation; Chapter 7: Unresolved Oedipal Conflicts and Narcissim-Typical Difficulties for Marriage and Individuation for Young Chinese Today: Two Clinical Case Studies; Chapter 8: Some Concluding Reflections: Marriage as a Psychological Relationship in China; References; Index

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