Marriage and Family in Modern China

A Psychoanalytic Exploration

By:

David E. Scharff

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Paperback / softback

Series:

The Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis

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Marriage and Family in Modern China is a groundbreaking psychoanalytic examination of how 70 years of widespread social change have transformed the intimacies of life in modern China. The book describes the evolution of marriage and family structure, from the ancient tradition of large families preferring sons, arranged marriages and devaluation of girls, to a contemporary dominance of free-choice marriages and families that now prefer to remain small even after the ending of the One Child Policy. David Scharff uses extensive reports of his psychoanalytic interventions to demonstrate how the residue of widespread trauma suffered by Chinese families during past centuries has interacted with the effects of rapid modernization to produce new patterns of individual identity, personal ambition and family structure. This wholly original book offers new insight into Chinese families for all those interested in psychoanalytic psychotherapy and in the intricacies of Chinese domestic life.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date NZ

December 31st, 2020

Author

David E. Scharff

Audiences

Professional & Vocational
Tertiary Education (US: College)

Illustrations

9 Halftones, black and white; 9 Illustrations, black and white

Pages

316

Series

The Library of Couple and Family Psychoanalysis

ISBN-13

9780367569471

Product ID

33821238

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