The Thinking Heart: Relationships and Mental Health in China

Broadcast: 15 May, 2022 Duration: 2 hours 48 minutes

Coinciding with the UK Mental Health Awareness Week 2022 whose theme is ‘loneliness’, this special online symposium will explore the dynamics of inter-personal relationships and intimacies of daily life in modern China, as they develop against the breathless pace of the country’s socio-economic changes. Speakers with extensive clinical and research experience across the Chinese and Western cultures will discuss a range of topics pertaining to ‘inner revolutions’ and the current ‘psycho-fever’ in China: the relational intricacies of clinical encounters, the modern dilemmas of balancing collectivist values with Western influences, the rapidly changing role of technology in shaping personal connections and mental health services, and above all: the evolving nature of family and romantic relationships.

Speakers:

          David E. Scharff and Jill Savege Scharff – Empty Heart Disease in China and the West

          Huan Wang – Integrity or Integration: A Very Chinese Dilemma

          Elise Snyder – Psychoanalysis and China: Then and Now

          Hsuan-Ying Huang – Reading Online to Know Your Self

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‘The Thinking Heart’ Symposium Programme – 15th May 2022

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