title: [Tsan Ting and his practice on psychoanalysis].
abstract: Tsan Ting entered the Department of Psychology of Nanjing Central University in 1931 and graduated in 1935, then went to the private Peking Union Medical College for graduate studies, where he received specialized training in psychoanalysis. Later Tsan Ting stayed in the neurology and public health department and worked in the mental health outpatients in Peiping Established First Health Offices, private Beijing Yuying Secondary School, the Peking Renli Carpet Factory there he applied psychoanalysis to cure patients. In 1940, Tsan Ting left Peiping and went to Chongqing, where he became the head of Mental Health Section of the Central Health Academy. During this period, Tsan Ting applied psychoanalysis to case investigation and child behavior guidance. He not only applied psychoanalysis in practice, but also studied psychoanalysis with an objective, complex-evidenced and critical attitude and was a proponent for psychoanalysis in a scientific and popular form. He introduced psychiatry and psychosomaticism associated with psychoanalysis and pushed forward the establishment of medical psychology in our country. Tsan Ting is the practitioner, researcher and proponent of psychoanalysis as well as the promoter of psychology.
authors.affiliation: Suzhou University, Suzhou, 215123, China.
authors.forename: Ting-Wei
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Fan
authors.forename: Jian
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Huang