David E. Scharff, MD, is Chair of the International Psychoanalytical Association's Committee on Family and Couple Psychoanalysis; Chair of the Board, Founder and former Director of the International Psychotherapy Institute, Washington, DC; and Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Georgetown University and the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences. He is the founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal 'Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China', and author and editor of numerous books and articles, including 'The Sexual Relationship', 'Object Relations Family Therapy' (with Jill Savege Scharff), 'Object Relations Couple Therapy', 'The Interpersonal Unconscious', and 'Psychoanalytic Couple Therapy'.

• Editorial Board -- Announcement and Call for Papers -- Editorial Introduction to Psychoanalysis and Psychotherapy in China -- From Psychotherapy to Psycho-Boom: A Historical Overview of Psychotherapy in China -- Brief Intervention with a Chinese Family* -- A Commentary on "Brief Intervention with a Chinese Family", by Jill and David Scharff -- Projective Identification in Group Therapy in China -- Somatic Countertransference: A Chinese Perspective -- Practising Analytical Psychology in East Asia: A Post-Jungian Italian Perspective -- The Core Element of Sandplay Therapy: Analytic Atmosphere -- 'Xie Yi Painting as a Culture of Therapy': Part 1 - Introduction -- Individual Development of Psychotherapists' and Practitioners' Motivation -- Special Section on Distance Analysis and Psychotherapy -- Editor's Introduction -- Teleanalysis: Problems, Limitations and Opportunities* -- Skype as the Uncanny Third* -- Not So Lost in Translation: Supervising Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy Candidates in China -- Psychotherapy in China: Historical Context and the Future -- Book Reviews -- Introduction -- China on the Mind -- A Cultural Approach to Discourse -- Psychoanalysis in China -- The Age of Ambition: Chasing Fortune, Truth, and Faith in the New China -- Event Review -- Presentations, Thoughts, and Reflections on the International Conference "Ronald Fairbairn and the Object Relations Tradition" -- List of Reviewers -- Instructions to Contributors