ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on what happened after the Taiwan Center for the Development of Psychoanalysis was founded, but a survey of the historical background in terms of psychoanalysis. The pluralism and richness in the geography and history of Taiwan has an interesting reverberation in culture and science. Psychiatry in Taiwan after the World War II has been influenced first by Japan and then much by the United States. Psychodynamic thinking has thus been one of the ongoing psychological components in Taiwan's psychiatry. The Taiwan Center organises two or three international conferences a year. For each conference we invite International Psychoanalytical Association psychoanalysts from other countries to spend a week in Taiwan. The comparison of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy has been the theme of one international conference. In that conference, Professor Daniel Widlocher distinguished three different kinds of realities, external, psychic, and subjective realities, which proved very helpful in considering the priority in different clinical settings.
