ABSTRACT
Since 1976, the end of the Cultural Revolution in China, and the beginning of the country’s modernisation in the 1980s, a growing interest in psychoanalysis and its application has been observed in China. American, Norwegian, and German psychoanalysts are currently offering such training schemes. The fact that German psychoanalysts have such an influence on the development of psychoanalytic psychotherapy, psychoanalysis, and now group analysis in China is attributable to past history. The make-up of the group of German lecturers underwent its own developmental process. The group process in each of the lecturer groups actually began before the trip itself, during the course of their discussions on curricula, sometimes conducted in person, sometimes over e-mail. Those taking part in the training courses were required to present their own back-home experience as group leaders in therapeutic or self-experience groups. Some of them initiated group therapy at the psychotherapeutic day centre or at the consultancy facility where they were employed.
