Discerning the applicability of psychoanalytic self psychology in a contemporary Chinese context: The case of the flight phobia and the flat-breasted mother

This article examines the applicability of psychoanalytic self psychology to the Chinese context by describing the historical background of self psychology and the viewpoints that differ from those of classical psychoanalysis, and then by combining this analysis with a Chinese case study of material from clinical work with a patient with flight phobia and an image of a flat-breasted mother.