ABSTRACT
Even in the Warring States Period of 400 BC, China had a rudimentary form of psychotherapy described in the classical works of The Yellow Emperor’s Canon of Medicine. As the medical profession became more interested and informed, the application of psychoanalysis experienced rapid development in the training of a group of Chinese psychotherapists with psychoanalytic orientation. Along with the maturation and generalisation of psychoanalytic training, authentication by the Chinese Labor Department results in formalising the roles of psychological consultants, psychotherapists, and psychological health care teachers as formal occupations, all contributing to the further development of clinical psychoanalysis. Psychoanalysis is thereby reaching in a preliminary way towards harmony between the rational, spiritual, and social, which sets up a basic framework for further development of psychoanalysis. From the perspective of Chinese social structure and culture, Yang Yunping talks about the professional identity problems of the Chinese psychoanalytically orientated therapists.
