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In China: A New Beginning for Psychoanalysis, Teresa Yuan, an Argentinian training and supervising analyst of Chinese heritage, narrates her efforts to support the development of psychoanalysis in China. Her journey spans more than two decades, during which she has been a driving force behind the acceptance of psychoanalysis in some of the most important mental health centers and hospitals in China. She was actively developing psychoanalytic training programs at a time when psychoanalytic private practices in psychotherapy were unknown in the country. Yuan's book is testimony to the pioneering work of IPA psychoanalysts in China since the 1980s, work supporting the growth of what soon will be the fourth region of the IPA.
Yuan was born in Argentina of Chinese and Syrian immigrants. Her father, a Chinese immigrant, instilled in her a passion for her Chinese roots. Her identification with the paternal side of her family led her to embark on a journey to spread psychoanalytic thinking by teaching in China. As a candidate, her passion for psychoanalysis and for Chinese culture drove her to sit on several IPA committees promoting the development of psychoanalysis in her father's homeland. Yuan, a psychologist trained at the University of Buenos Aires, has published extensively at the intersection of psychoanalysis and Chinese culture.
In her writing, Yuan integrates Chinese folk tales, philosophy, and fables to creatively illustrate the different nuances in the way Chinese culture represents, understands, and treats mental health. She opens the book with the evocative poem “Ode to the Cherry Tree Blossom,” by Mao Tsetung. She describes the Mei, a variety of cherry tree that bloooms in the winter. She links this poem to her experience helping psychoanalysis flourish in China over the winter months through her work in training