ABSTRACT
Psychiatry in Taiwan after the Second World War was influenced first by Japan and then by the United States, which instilled the seeds of psychodynamic thinking in Taiwan's psychiatry. The Taiwan Centre is characterized by its diversity, which can be understood on several levels. First, its senior leading members have different training backgrounds, including many with ties to British psychoanalysis, whereas others trained in France, and still others in North America. Second, the members represent different professional disciplines. In order to meet the needs of the diverse members and to promote psychoanalysis to the general public, Taiwanese have tried very hard to build up a multi-layer network of teaching and learning. Due to the variety of viewpoints within the Taiwan Centre, many controversial issues have been touched upon in the educational curriculum, including a comparison of psychoanalysis and psychotherapy, the relevance of psychoanalysis to contemporary psychiatry, especially for the deeper understanding of psychotic patients.
