Dr. Shirley See Yan Ma is a Jungian psychoanalyst in private practice in Hong Kong. She is a training analyst and faculty member at the C. G. Jung Institut and at the International School of Analytical Psychology, both in Zurich, Switzerland. Ma is Honorary Assistant Professor of Psychology at the University of Hong Kong and founder/director of Jung Centre Hong Kong.

Her book, Footbinding: A Jungian Engagement with Chinese Culture and Psychology, provides a Jungian perspective on the Chinese tradition of footbinding and considers how it can be used as a metaphor for the suffering of women and the repression of the feminine, as well as a symbol for hope, creativity and spiritual transformation. Drawing on personal history, popular myths, literature, and work with clients, Footbinding discusses how modern women still symbolically find their feet bound through this ancient practice. Detailed case studies from Western and Asian women demonstrate how Jungian analysis can loosen these psychological bindings allowing the client to reconnect with the feminine archetype, discover their own identity and take control of their own destiny.