利用15年的精神分析理论和治疗教学经验,主要从对象关系的角度到中国心理治疗师现场和在线,作者介绍了他们对中国文化的了解,社会史,和哲学,以及中国人交流情感体验的方式。他们的文章充满了中国人对隐喻和心身象征的使用,尤其是心脏。他们阐述了中国人的空心病概念,将其与西方文学概念进行比较和对比,社会学和精神分析,即脾脏,失范,死去的母亲,和分裂样,空的,false,和自恋的自我状态。他们将空心概念扩展到中国的各个年龄段和症状表现,用一个女人的个人精神分析的小插图和一个没有亲密关系的夫妇的应用精神分析的三个小插图来说明,一个有强迫性心身症状的孩子,以及一名青少年辍学者,在学业压力下自残和自杀。强调了症状表现与社会生活和时代之间的联系,他们讨论创伤的影响,它在中国的跨代传播,以及前所未有的经济增长和社会变革对个人的影响,夫妇和家庭。
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.