ABSTRACT
This chapter begins with the common-sense conjecture that psychoanalytic models and conceptions are partly restricted to western culture and partly valid for other cultures as well. It describes a case of transference-countertransference dynamics enacted in a Chinese psychotherapeutic scene and provides a small contribution to the question of the general adequacy of these analytic concepts in the Chinese setting. The chapter discusses aspects of the dynamics of the interchanges in this treatment, and aims to ask how therapists might understand the function of his transference feelings and the therapist’s countertransference reactions. The therapist decided to respond to the patient’s attacks on the therapeutic frame by self-exposure. One is the therapist’s enactments, which actually can be used as signals of transference feelings provoking countertransference reactions and thus bringing the therapist out of therapeutic position. In this material the pressure on the therapist has been to act in a specific way with self-disclosures.
