宏观与微观探讨方药在体内作用问题

1宏观探讨致病环境与药物的作用问题 中医所说的致病,多由外邪与内伤作用于人体,导致人体阴阳平衡失调,继而发病.当致病因子作用于人体时,首先会在体内创造一种致病环境,这种致病环境致使机体的正常体内环境发生改变,而正常脏腑无从适应如此变化,继而出现各种不同的临床症状.中医用药的目的正是作用于此种致病环境,恢复体内正常环境,消除致病因子,达到治愈疾病的目的.刘力红教授提出:"中医治病的真实境界就是利用药物的不同属性来模拟不同的方,不同的时间、空间".指出中医用药的本质就是开时间、开环境,用药物环境作用人体.这跟肖正中提出的"药场疗法"有质的相似,即药有药场,能跟人体场进行物质与能量的交换,而药物吸收消化本身就是物质和能量的交换,只要在场效应范围内,将有效药物置于适当部位,就能使失衡的人体场趋于动态平衡,达到治病目的.因此笔者认为中药的作用范围及靶点就是以致病环境为中心,围绕这个环境进行作用和治疗,其方式就是产生药场环境,维持人体场的动态平衡.     

当心都市“时代心理病”

随着社会节奏急剧加快,人们的生活节奏也随之加快,尤其是以都市白领为主体的人群,其工作压力大,紧张度高,生活节奏快。这类人群因长期处于精神高度紧张状态下,而又得不到应有的调节,会使其身心过度疲劳,一些与时代发展有关的心理病也在不断增多,久而久之,必然会导致焦虑症、抑郁症等心理问题和疾病。从生理角度讲,长期精神高度紧张也会使其内分泌功能失调,人体免疫力下降而导致各种生理疾病产生。我们有必要了解这些“时代心理病”的表现及产生的原因和相应对策,以确保身心健康。信息焦虑症症状:每天都将大量时间花在上网浏览信息、看电视、…     

功能性疾病的再认识

1　“功能性疾病”的由来与现状生物医学模式指导下的疾病概念为 :“人体在一定条件下 ,由致病因素所引起的一种复杂而有一定表现形式的病理过程。此时 ,在不同程度上 ,人体正常生理过程遭到破坏 ,表现为对外界环境变化的适应性降低、劳动能力受到限制或丧失 ,并出现一系列的临床症状。疾病是致病因素对人体的损害和人体对这些损害的防御代偿等作用的矛盾。这一矛盾双方在整个疾病过程中不断进行斗争 ,直到疾病痊愈或人体死亡时才告终结”[1] 。生物医学模式有两个基本假设 :(1)还原论 ,即认为所有疾病均可线性地还原到某一病因或细胞结构变…     

中医整体观是中医的特色与优势吗

长期以来 ,中医学界都把整体观作为中医的特色与优势之一。但是 ,作为特色和优势 ,都是在比较中产生的。中医的特色与优势 ,应该是指与西医相比较而言的 ,即人无我有、人有我异。这才能真正称得上特色和优势。是否真的如此呢 ?今以第六版中基教材上关于中医整体观的阐述为基础 ,对中西医理论进行一个简单的比较 ,对这个问题也许会有些新的认识。1　整体观念并非中医独有1 1　首先是就中医整体观的医学内涵来看 :“中医认为 ,人体是一个有机的整体 ,人体的结构互相联系 ,不可分割 ;人体的各种功能互相协调 ,彼此为用 ,在患病时 ,体内的各个部…     

愿力影响际遇

可听过吸引力法则或心愿力量(mindpower)精神导向的说法?意谓当一个人的愿力很强,通过诚心的祈祷向宇宙发出信息,希望某些愿望会实现,这种愿力会变成很强的能量信息,可以调动自己的各种潜能,跟外在环境协调,从而改变命运的轨迹,达到心想事成的效果。     

劝君莫生气

一位名人说过:“生气是拿别人的错误惩罚自己。”怒和气是并生的,气由怒而起,怒由气而生。怒气是百病之源。在人的七情中,“怒”对人体危害最大。怒气爆发快,能量大,破坏力强,后果极其严重,它犹如一枚“炸弹”,一旦引爆,不但会炸伤别人,更会炸伤自己,铸成大错,后悔莫及。《黄帝内经》指出“,百病皆生于气”,认为“怒伤肝,喜伤心,思伤脾,忧伤肺,恐伤肾”。唐代名医孙思邈在《养生铭》中称愤怒过度会大伤元气。清代名医林佩琴在《类证治裁》中记载因怒气伤肝的病症多达30余种。现代医学研究表     

对中医体质理论应用的几点思考

1　体质与辨证辨证论治是公认的中医学的最主要特点和理论核心 ,对现代医学而言 ,也是最值得借鉴的。而“证”是对疾病发展到某一阶段的病理特点的高度概括。而病理特点的不同恰恰以体质差异为根据。中医理论认为 ,疾病的发生是以脏腑为核心 ,外感六淫 ,七情、饮食、劳逸等因素作用于人体 ,由于各脏腑禀赋强弱不同 ,从而决定着机体对某些致病因素的易感性及病变类型的倾向性。当致病因素侵犯人体 ,会随着人体阴阳的偏盛偏衰、寒热虚实的差异而发生病理性质的变化。如 :阳热偏盛之体 ,感受湿邪 ,易从热化 ,而至湿热为患。脾阳不足之人则易从…     

人体系统的非优性与疾病的时空特征

人体系统并非完美,生命抛物线是由生理年龄、社会年龄、人体熵三大要素在非线性作用下相干的结果,从而呈现一种复杂的网状“大Ｘ构架”。每一个交叉点都具有阶段性态变的意义和对生命质量的表征。疾病是人体系统非优的必然。熵压决定了熵的退行性运动,从而也决定了生命时间的有限性。疾病是熵增过程造成机体不同程度封闭的结果。每次疾病都是对熵的增压,造成机体的物质丢失、时间丢失与跳跃,出现熵运动方面的引力偏折,从而在局     

证与病、体质关系的探讨

中医学中的“证”包含着对疾病、药物及体质等多方面相互作用的认识,关于病及体质失衡的知识是构成证的两大基本内容;现代医学是一种暗含所有人体质都相同的简化理论,在现代对疾病认识的基础上,从疾病与体质相互作用角度来研究人体与疾病,可以获得更全面的认识,从而弥补现代疾病理论的不足,是现代疾病理论的发展方向.     

疾病的文化隐喻与医学人类学的哲学鉴别解析

医学社会人类学的哲学观点认为,个体的疾病现象是社会的构成。个体的疾病现象本质上是结构在人体－社会－文化关系的体系中。人群疾病的流行病学特征乃至人群临床病征及其主述皆与不同文化形态的社会及不同阶层的社会生活史、道德、禁忌、规范以及宗教育有着特定的联系。因此,医学人类学在于超越临床生物医学的范畴而去关注于人体疾患的文体隐喻和社会象征的探讨,特别是近年来“人体－社会体－政体鉴别解释”理论和方法的发展,正迅速促进疾病社会符号象征的研究产生根本性的变化和健康政策实践的发展。     

Together – apart: in touch in a time of separation

This paper explores the experience of working as a Jungian analyst through the various phases of the global COVID-19 pandemic, examining the importance of the physical containing space alongside the analyst’s internal mind and how technology can both help and hinder understanding. A number of clinical vignettes illustrate the challenge of communicating over a distance, paying particular attention to the way countertransference phenomena can become re-attuned. Reference is made to mythology and symbols of hope, and consideration given to the meaning and purpose of the pandemic.     

The Possibility of Meaning in Human Evolution

Science undermines the certitude of non-naturalistic answers to the question of whether human life has meaning. I explore whether evolution can provide a naturalistic basis for existential meaning. Using the work of philosopher Daniel Dennett and scientist Ursula Goodenough, I argue that evolution is the locus of the possibility of meaning because it has produced intentionality, the matrix of consciousness. I conclude that the question of the meaning of human life is an existentialist one: existential meaning is a product of the individual and collective tasks human beings undertake.     

Phenotypic plasticity and archetype: a response to common objections to the biological theory of archetype and instinct

Since Jung’s death in 1961, scholars have attempted to integrate growing biological science data into Jungian concepts such as the collective unconscious, instincts and the archetypes. This enterprise has been challenging due to persistent false dichotomies of gene and environment occasionally arising. Recent works by Roesler (2022a, 2022b) for example, have raised objections to the biological theory of archetypes, but the objections are plagued by such dichotomies. The concept of phenotypic plasticity, however, helps to both avoid this problem as well as bridge the gap between competing theories into a more integrated model with solid biological foundations.     

When is it time to stop? When good enough becomes bad enough

This article draws on Winnicott’s concept of the good enough mother to discuss how to know whether a therapeutic situation is good enough to continue or bad enough to end. This dilemma is explored in terms of clinical syndromes, such as anorexia and pathological gambling, but focuses mainly on analyst-initiated endings, which are termed the ‘Casablanca dilemma’, based on an amplification of the ending of the film Casablanca. The author goes on to discuss such one-sided endings, drawing on interviews with 40 analysts and therapists about their clinical experience. A typology of bad enough endings is presented. The psychological differences between a good enough analysis as opposed to a bad enough one are explored through the ideas of Winnicott and Neumann.     

Kann Es Ein Argument Für Den Skeptizismus Geben? Das Epistemische Problem Der Irrtumsmöglichkeit

Summary  Is there any argument for scepticism? The epistemic problem of the possibility of error. Arguments for scepticism rest on the assumption that knowledge claims are fallible. For this reason the concept of knowledge appears to be questionable. Since it is necessary to distinguish doubts from possible doubts, the arguments for scepticism appear to be unconvincing. If we take it into account that we know something that is immune to doubt, we should draw the conclusion that, contrary to scepticism, knowledge claims have to be compatible with being fallible. Thus any knowledge claim is capable of being doubted.     

The transcendent function in Spitteler’s Prometheus and Epimetheus

In August 2020, John Beebe and Steve Myers met via Zoom to discuss their differing interpretations of psychological typology and the different sources within Jung’s writings that influenced their books: Integrity in Depth: Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type (Beebe), and Myers-Briggs Typology vs Jungian Individuation (Myers). The discussion centred on Spitteler’s epic poem Prometheus und Epimetheus, which forms the basis of chapter V of Psychological Types. This is both the largest chapter and one of two chapters that Jung highlighted in the Argentine foreword as containing the essence of the book. Jung’s book is primarily about the transformation of personality rather than the categorization of people. Although it contains a critical psychology that deconstructs the nature of consciousness, that is only one half of the book and a stepping-stone to the other half, which is the reconciliation of opposites with particular emphasis on the relation of consciousness and the unconscious. Jung assumed that readers were already familiar with Prometheus und Epimetheus, an understanding of which sheds light on the nature of the transformation that Jung described – the development of a new attitude towards attitude itself.     

Chapter 6: Biblical Foundations for a Practical Theology of Aging

SUMMARY

This article reviews Biblical sources pertaining to the elderly, particularly the frail elderly. Founded on these sources, implications for elderly with Alzheimer's Disease and other forms of dementia are addressed through a personal perspective informed by writings of Christian mystics.     

Seeing in the Dark: A View into Dissociation and Healing

In this paper, I will explore the role of art-making, the experience of trauma and dissociation, and the process of working with self-states from an analytic and creative frame. Relevant literature on dissociation, trauma, and the use of art will be discussed. A case involving my work with an adolescent girl who had experienced sexual abuse from a family member will be shared, with an emphasis on the meaningful role images played during the therapeutic process. Both Jungian and psychoanalytic models of conceptualizing and working with dissociation are included, following Donald Kalsched’s (2013) recommendation for a “binocular stance” to treatment, including both a focus on the inner, intrapsychic world and the interpersonal, relational realm, and how art images both illuminated and expressed these realms. Within the therapeutic process, art images allowed the therapist a view into the client’s unconscious process, and created a meeting ground for dissociative barriers to be gradually seen, felt and known, by both therapist and client. The experience of dissociation, in images and in session, provided a reference point for myself and my client, Taylor, to develop a shared understanding and a framework for growth.