David E Scharff
Biographic Data
| ID | 384851 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David E Scharff |
| GIVEN NAMES | David E |
| FAMILY NAME | Scharff |
| SIGNATURE | SCHARFF D E |
| AFFILIATIONS | Editor of the journal Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China. |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0130-7939 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 10 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1971 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Empty Heart Disease
Drawing on 15 years of experience teaching psychoanalytic theory and therapy primarily from an object relations perspective to Chinese psychotherapists onsite and online, the authors present their learning about Chinese culture, social history, and philosophy, and the Chinese way of communicating about emotional experience. Their essay is imbued with the Chinese use of metaphor and psychosomatic symbolization, particularly involving the heart. Th…
Workplace Intelligence
How can we build bridges between the keen insights of psychoanalysis and ordinary, familiar experiences, so that professional audiences, curious students
Use of the Object in Psychoanalysis
Group affective learning in training for psychotherapy and psychoanalysis
This paper describes The Group Affective Model, a method for teaching psychoanalytic concepts and their clinical application, using multi-channel teaching, process and review in group settings, and learning from experience in an open systems learning community for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. This innovation arose in response to criticism of existing methods in psychoanalytic education that have subordinated the primary educational task t…
Family and Couple Psychoanalysis
Linked Self in Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalysis in China
Using extensive quotation, the author reviews the introduction and current state of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in China from the vantage point of recent publications in English. Psychoanalysis was briefly introduced to China before the Communist era, then forbidden, and has experienced an accelerated reintroduction since the late 1980s. The author briefly summarizes the cultural and historical background of China relevant to …
Pichon Rivière's psychoanalytic contributions
Enrique Pichon Rivière's work, fundamental to Latin American and European psychoanalytic development, is largely unknown in English-language psychoanalysis. Pichon's central contribution, the link (el vinculo), describes relational bonds in all dimensions. People are born into, live in, and relate through links. Psychic structure is built of links that then influence external interaction. Links, expressed in mind, body and external action, contin…
Psychoanalytic Teaching by Video Link and Telephone
In this era of global connectedness, there is great interest in using distance video platforms such as Skype and VSee, as well as the telephone, for conducting psychoanalysis and psychotherapy across geographic distance. Little, however, has been written about the use of technology for psychoanalytic education. The International Psychotherapy Institute has extensive experience in the use of videoconference and telephone technology in the teaching…
Book Essay
The facilitation of genius
Marco Conci's paper gives new information on the relationship between two giants of early object relations: Rickman and Bion. First as Bion's analyst, and later as his mentor, colleague, and friend, Rickman inspired and facilitated the development of one of our treasured analytic geniuses. Although we only have Bion's letters, and so not the full correspondence, the portrait of a genuinely facilitating relationship develops, one that began before…
Chaos theoryas a new paradigm in psychoanalysis
(2002). Chaos theoryas a new paradigm in psychoanalysis: a contribution to the discussion of models. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis: Vol. 83, No. 2, pp. 487-490
The Relevance of the Family to Psychoanalytic Theory
Families in Britain
Adolescence
Psychoanalytic Teaching by Video Link and Telephone
In this era of global connectedness, there is great interest in using distance video platforms such as Skype and VSee, as well as the telephone, for conducting psychoanalysis and psychotherapy across geographic distance. Little, however, has been written about the use of technology for psychoanalytic education. The International Psychotherapy Institute has extensive experience in the use of videoconference and telephone technology in the teaching…
Chaos theoryas a new paradigm in psychoanalysis
(2002). Chaos theoryas a new paradigm in psychoanalysis: a contribution to the discussion of models. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis: Vol. 83, No. 2, pp. 487-490
Pichon Rivière's psychoanalytic contributions
Enrique Pichon Rivière's work, fundamental to Latin American and European psychoanalytic development, is largely unknown in English-language psychoanalysis. Pichon's central contribution, the link (el vinculo), describes relational bonds in all dimensions. People are born into, live in, and relate through links. Psychic structure is built of links that then influence external interaction. Links, expressed in mind, body and external action, contin…
Group affective learning in training for psychotherapy and psychoanalysis
This paper describes The Group Affective Model, a method for teaching psychoanalytic concepts and their clinical application, using multi-channel teaching, process and review in group settings, and learning from experience in an open systems learning community for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. This innovation arose in response to criticism of existing methods in psychoanalytic education that have subordinated the primary educational task t…
Psychoanalysis in China
Using extensive quotation, the author reviews the introduction and current state of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in China from the vantage point of recent publications in English. Psychoanalysis was briefly introduced to China before the Communist era, then forbidden, and has experienced an accelerated reintroduction since the late 1980s. The author briefly summarizes the cultural and historical background of China relevant to …
Adolescence
Families in Britain
The Relevance of the Family to Psychoanalytic Theory
Chaos theoryas a new paradigm in psychoanalysis
(2002). Chaos theoryas a new paradigm in psychoanalysis: a contribution to the discussion of models. The International Journal of Psychoanalysis: Vol. 83, No. 2, pp. 487-490
The facilitation of genius
Marco Conci's paper gives new information on the relationship between two giants of early object relations: Rickman and Bion. First as Bion's analyst, and later as his mentor, colleague, and friend, Rickman inspired and facilitated the development of one of our treasured analytic geniuses. Although we only have Bion's letters, and so not the full correspondence, the portrait of a genuinely facilitating relationship develops, one that began before…
Book Essay
Psychoanalytic Teaching by Video Link and Telephone
In this era of global connectedness, there is great interest in using distance video platforms such as Skype and VSee, as well as the telephone, for conducting psychoanalysis and psychotherapy across geographic distance. Little, however, has been written about the use of technology for psychoanalytic education. The International Psychotherapy Institute has extensive experience in the use of videoconference and telephone technology in the teaching…
Psychoanalysis in China
Using extensive quotation, the author reviews the introduction and current state of psychoanalysis and psychoanalytic psychotherapy in China from the vantage point of recent publications in English. Psychoanalysis was briefly introduced to China before the Communist era, then forbidden, and has experienced an accelerated reintroduction since the late 1980s. The author briefly summarizes the cultural and historical background of China relevant to …
Pichon Rivière's psychoanalytic contributions
Enrique Pichon Rivière's work, fundamental to Latin American and European psychoanalytic development, is largely unknown in English-language psychoanalysis. Pichon's central contribution, the link (el vinculo), describes relational bonds in all dimensions. People are born into, live in, and relate through links. Psychic structure is built of links that then influence external interaction. Links, expressed in mind, body and external action, contin…
Group affective learning in training for psychotherapy and psychoanalysis
This paper describes The Group Affective Model, a method for teaching psychoanalytic concepts and their clinical application, using multi-channel teaching, process and review in group settings, and learning from experience in an open systems learning community for psychoanalysts and psychotherapists. This innovation arose in response to criticism of existing methods in psychoanalytic education that have subordinated the primary educational task t…
Family and Couple Psychoanalysis
Linked Self in Psychoanalysis
Use of the Object in Psychoanalysis
Workplace Intelligence
How can we build bridges between the keen insights of psychoanalysis and ordinary, familiar experiences, so that professional audiences, curious students
Empty Heart Disease
Drawing on 15 years of experience teaching psychoanalytic theory and therapy primarily from an object relations perspective to Chinese psychotherapists onsite and online, the authors present their learning about Chinese culture, social history, and philosophy, and the Chinese way of communicating about emotional experience. Their essay is imbued with the Chinese use of metaphor and psychosomatic symbolization, particularly involving the heart. Th…
Psychoanalysis (11 works) · Psychology (11 works) · Psychoanalytic theory (7 works) · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications (6 works) · Psychotherapist (5 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Psychoanalysis (3 works) · Unconscious mind (3 works) · Art (2 works) · China (2 works)