Psychological Research Of Chinese Medicine Imagery Thinking

TCM image thinking get special development and early maturity in ancient times, image thinking as Chinese traditional thinking way is different from western abstract thinking. This thesis clarifies academic origin, characteristics, cultural connotation and practice method of TCM image thinking and related d the important category from the philosophical level and psychology level.The main content of this thesis is in the following:In the first part the thesis investigates some of the important category:Yi, Xiang and Imagery and examines the cultural origins of each category.In the second part the thesis examines the philosophical origin of TCM image thinking and narrates the connotation of TCM image thinking and it's method.In the third part the author introduces some related psychology concept and research methods, such as appearance, imagery, prototype image, thinking, empirical research method, phenomenology.The fourth part the authour discusses the paradox of the modernization of traditional Chinese medicine and traditional philosophy,and the difference of the image thinking and western thinking, and discusses the differences between traditional Chinese medicine image thinking and cognitive psychology path and expounds the psychological essence of TCM image thinking.Chinese image thinking is so distinctive for traditional of Chinese medicine that to study its origin is the urgent needs of Chinese medicine modernization. The traditional Chinese thinking attaches great importance to understanding the overall object and use an intuitive perception function to grasp object and to learn the object's characteristics and laws from the dynamic process of the world; traditional Chinese thinking, such as overall thinking, intuitive thinking and dynamic thinking, is the most prominent characteristic of the Chinese Medical image thinking. This research tries to analyze the characteristics of the traditional Chinese thinking to confine preliminarily the basic nature and its developing history about the Chinese medical image thinking.During the process of Chinese medical modernization, it is necessary to adopt various scientific means and path to expound Chinese medical traditional thinking. Chinese medical image thinking is one of the most unique thinking of Chinese medical thinking. Exactly, cognitive psychology focus on studying human senior psychology cognitive process, especially complex thought strategy. By the concept of cognitive psychology, such as unconscious and imagery, etc, to understand the unique cognitive way of the Chinese medical image thinking can promote its modernization and scientific process. The Chinese medical image thinking is one of the Chinese original thoughts which have most outstanding feature and advantage. To explore deeply the "image" mental substance can help to promote Chinese modernization process. As a Chinese traditional medical original thought, based on the overall concept of "Holism of human being and universe" and cognition main body of universe life sight, "image" is a unique and profound thought. Through psychology methodology to elucidate "image", the results indicate that "image" is one kind of thinking path of the inside source and objective subjectiveness and humanism directed cognition psychology.