2001 SEYMOUR B. SARASON AWARD ADDRESS: The Spirit of Community Psychology

Community psychology as a field may have lost some of its original spirit; a spirit dominant at the founding of the field. Spirit is a difficult concept to discuss since it is a concept beyond usual discourse in psychology as a denotative, measurable and verifiable concept. Taking the lead from William James, Spirit, however elusive, is most essential to a sense of self. I offer three suggestions to enhance and to make our individual and collective spirit more vital: (1) Continuing education in the history of community psychology; (2) Creating time to share stories about our work; (3) Creating safe settings to enlarge our spirit. These ideas are offered as pragmatic suggestions to enable us to create more coherence between our personal and professional selves.     

中国古代养生体育思想简论

中国古代养生体育思想是建立在其关于生命的认识基础上.传统文化从天人合一、天人相应的高度观照人的生命现象,认为人的生命是天地自然运化的产物,人的生命与天地自然运化具有相同的节律,与此相应,传统养生观要求顺应自然大化,遵循自然规律,按照自然运化节律调养身心;传统哲学认为人的生命是一个形体与精神相结合的整体,因此,在养生观上主张养神与养形相结合,提出了静以养神,动以养形的养生法则.     

SPIRIT HEALING,MENTAL HEALTH,AND EMOTION REGULATION

Abstract. Spirit healing is widespread across societies in diverse world regions. Its ritual forms appear in local, popular religions as well as a variety of organized churches. Although aspects of ritual, suchas the identification of spirits and use of symbols and paraphernalia, vary with culture and type of religion, there appear to be basic components of ritual healing process shared by its diverse forms. Using data on Spiritist healing in Puerto Rico as a case example, I first examine aspects of the interface between mental illness as defined by psychiatry and spirit healing. I then raise the question: If spirit healing is effective with some emotional disorders (as I have discussed in previous reports), how does it work? Emotional transactions could be considered foundational to most or all spirit healing rituals as they are to some psychotherapeutic and alternative‐medicine modalities. One model of emotion regulation is proposed as a lens through which to view specific processes of change in feelings and emotions in the context of culturally specified ritual structures.     

《周易》对中国社会的影响

<周易>是中国社会文化之根本,不仅具有政治决疑的作用,还塑造了中华民族自强不息、厚德载物、变通日新、生生不息、保合太和的和合精神,培孕了中华意象的直觉思维、和合的整体思维和阴阳的逻辑思维,对天文学、医学、养生学、数学、建筑学等自然科学有不可或缺的影响.     

心理学解绎:《黄帝内经》的"神"

<黄帝内经>认为神是先天之精(生殖细胞精)与后天之精(营养物质)相互作用的产物,是精这种物质的动态形式,是人体机能活动状态,包括魂、魄、意、志以及思、虑、智等.     

有限成分论和多成分论的辨析——中药药效成分争论的焦点

辩证地分析了关于中药药效成分争论的焦点问题———有限成分论和多成分论,以及产生的根源,讨论了中药药效成分研究的方法和思路,并倡导实事求是的科研精神。     

21世纪仍然需要大力弘扬和培育雷锋精神——纪念“向雷锋同志学习”题词发表40周年

新的时代需要雷锋精神,雷锋精神也完全能够同改革开放、发展市场经济,全面建设小康社会,加快社会主义现代化建设,开创中国特色社会主义事业新局面的时代要求结合起来。     

积极心理学视野下的孝道及心理机制

如何提高人们的幸福感是各领域积极探索的问题,孝道在几千年的历史演变和人们的幸福生活中占据重要的位置,然而其在当代市场经济环境下,具有怎样积极的时代内涵和特征,孝道与幸福感之间存在怎样的内在心理机制,以及孝道能否为提高行孝者的幸福感做出贡献等问题尚存在疑问,积极心理学为解决这些问题提供了很好的视角。这些问题的澄清为提升人们的幸福感,促进行孝者自觉自愿地行孝,解决老龄化问题以及和谐社会的构建提供了新的启示。     

近视激光手术治疗几个问题的探讨

通过对ICD-10中涉及亚健康的相关类目分析,阐述了亚健康的概念范畴、相关症状表现、相关因素以及防范和纠正,尤其详细论述了亚健康的重点——疲劳状态。“亚健康”,本质上主要是一类心身失调,其防范或纠正,不能只依赖药物、食物等生物学手段,而应更多地借助认知疗法、心理调整、行为纠治等非生物学手段。此外,笔者还创新性的提出：在未来的《ICD》中专列亚健康类目的构想。     

On Yoda,Trouble, and Transformation: The Cultural Context of Therapy and Supervision

In America, we miss the pivotal role of trouble in transformation, because our pursuit of a painless and trouble-free life aborts the process by which the psyche “gives birth” to change. As therapists, we know better: healing and growth require movement through, rather than avoidance of, troubling symptoms. Meanwhile our culture, in order to avoid facing the trouble of aging, sidelines and segregates our old people, which lets the Elder spirit waiting in each Old One wither from disuse. We do for our clients what Elders would do for the culture, carrying their accumulated weight of hope and despair, joy and sorrow, violence and peace. Eldering and therapy transform that troubling weight into “spiritual ballast,” providing the stable ground people need for the journey through life. So as therapists, we’ve been drafted, ready or not, and without our informed consent, into the role of Cultural Elder. We are midwives during the labor that births new beginnings. The supervisors among us can be seen as providing for apprentice therapists the final experience that initiates them into this crucial cultural role. In contributing to the reweaving of an unraveling world, our profession serves a function and carries a responsibility much broader than that defined by our credentials.