ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the importance of honing sensitivity to the role that cultural differences play in how we listen to, understand, and interpret clinical material. It discusses the content of the introductory course of psychoanalytic psychotherapy. The chapter identifies the patients and students to protect their confidentiality while preserving the integrity of the narrative. Hainan Anning Hospital is the area’s premier psychiatric hospital and the largest mental health centre in Hainan province, staffed by 104 psychiatrists, at least twenty psychiatric residents in training, and approximately ten or more psychologists. As the teaching hospital of Hainan Medical University, it is charged with teaching psychiatry to undergraduate and graduate students. Hainan Anning Hospital psychiatrists informed that although they had been exposed to teaching mainly by psychiatrists from elsewhere in China, they were longing to learn from a western psychoanalyst. The syllabus for Part One of this psychoanalytic psychotherapy theory and therapy course was developed in consultation with Dr Wang Hongxing.
