Psychoanalysis in Hong Kong: The Absent, the Present, and the Reinvented

Author(s) : Diego Busiol

Psychoanalysis in Hong Kong: The Absent, the Present, and the Reinvented

Book Details

  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Published : 2016
  • Cover : Hardback
  • Pages : 224
  • Category :
    Culture and Psychoanalysis
  • Catalogue No : 38757
  • ISBN 13 : 9781138909656
  • ISBN 10 : 1138909653
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How is it possible that a phenomenon like psychoanalysis, which has dominated the cultural and intellectual life of the last century in Europe, North and South America, has had apparently no resonance in Hong Kong? While psychoanalysis is raising some interest in Mainland China and in Taiwan, it remains only marginally relevant in Hong Kong. This book attempts to explain why.

Addressing the subject from an East to West approach, this study proposes an experience of displacement, as it is argued that the chance for psychoanalysis today is not just to be exported to the East, but asking how psychoanalysis can be re-invented after experiencing the culture in Hong Kong. What remains of psychoanalysis, after this? How to re-invent and innovate psychoanalysis today? This study also debunks the myth that psychoanalytic research cannot be led by adopting a quantitative/statistical methodology.

About the Author(s)

Diego Busiol is a licensed psychologist and licensed psychotherapist in his native country of Italy, and obtained his PhD from City University of Hong Kong. As a psychoanalyst, he has maintained a private practice in Hong Kong for several years.

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