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Translators of the Soul: Bingham Dai, Pow-Meng Yap, and the Making of Transcultural Psychoanalysis in the Asia Pacific (2021)

Chiang, Howard Hsueh-Hao (Author)

Psychoanalysis and History
Volume: 23
Issue: 2
Pages: 161-185
Publication date: 2021

DOI: 10.3366/pah.2021.0380

URI: https://euppublishing.com/doi/abs/10.3366/pah.2021.0380

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This essay argues that Asian psychoanalysts developed a new style of science, what I call transcultural reasoning, in the twentieth century. This conceptual innovation drew on the power of cultural narratives to elucidate the unconscious mind across different historical and geographical contexts. Focusing on the life and work of two experts in particular, Bingham Dai (1899–1996) and Pow-Meng Yap (1921–71), this article reconsiders the role of biography in the history of psychoanalysis and elucidates the importance of the Asia Pacific region to the transformation of mental health science in the twentieth century.

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