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Abstract
This article addresses psychological issues confronting Chinese immigrants and Chinese Americans alike in the United States. Different cultural elements and their likely impact on the psychology of Chinese Americans and their subsequent help-seeking behaviors in utilization of psychoanalysis were identified and discussed. In addition to cultural delineation, psychoanalytical perspectives were applied to understand the phenomena and the clinical situations.
Among the cultural elements, the notion of filial piety in the teachings of Confucius was speculated to play a significant role in generational relatedness and its subsequent effects on the psychological well-being of the younger generation. Theoretically, Bion’s models’ of attacks on linking (1959) and the container contained (1970), as well as Meltzer’s concepts of the apprehension of beauty and aesthetic conflicts (1988) were applied to understand the clinical materials.