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The Study Of The Influence Of Traditional Chinese Culture On Tcm Psychology

Posted on:2011-12-20Degree:DoctorType:Dissertation
Country:ChinaCandidate:Y P ZhangFull Text:PDF
GTID:1114330338960855Subject:TCM History and Literature
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The Chinese medicine has both the medicinal science property and obvious culture property. It originates in the traditional Chinese culture which has the core of traditional Chinese philosophy. China is one of the birthplaces of world civilization. The history of Chinese culture has run a long course from a remote source which has great and prolong influence on the Chinese people and world civilization. Psychologists G Murphy used to Praise China as the first hometown of Psychology. TCM psychology is an important component of Chinese medicine theory which roots in traditional Chinese culture and ethical psychology. There are many great thoughts in Chinese culture, such as "Harmony of human body and natural environment", "the high value of people", "the golden mean" and "awareness of unexpected development". These thoughts include rich content about epistemology, methodology and axiology and have great influence on TCM psychology.With the progress of the society and the development of medicinal science, the human disease spectrum has changed greatly. There is more and more disease caused by social psychological elements. In order to solve this problem, the world medicinal psychology needs Chinese medicine to join in. TCM psychology has obvious characteristics and outstanding advantages in medicine mode and psychological disease treatment which roots in Chinese traditional culture. Therefore, only do we focus on the traditional culture can we have a better understanding on the essence of TCM psychology. The study of TCM psychology as well as its effect on theory, diagnosis, treatment and prevention can not only promote the establishment of Chinese culture mode medicinal psychological theory but also enrich the study on cultural anthropology. Furthermore, the task and significance of this study is to enrich and draw lessons from modern psychological treatment and modern medicine mode.This subject adopts the literature methodology to research on the origin of TCM psychology as well as its effect on theory, diagnosis, treatment and prevention and expounds and proves its modern value and inspiration. The main content is as following:1. The study on the origin of TCM psychology:in traditional Chinese culture, the Chinese medicine and TCM psychology develop simultaneously. This study begins in the witchcraft culture study and then have a further research on TCM psychology from the angle of the influence of representative culture in different historical stage on it, the analysis and thinking of TCM psychology advantages and disadvantages are also included.2. The study on traditional Chinese culture's influence on Chinese medicinal psychological theory:the Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism are the main content of traditional Chinese culture. We focus on its influence on TCM psychological thoughts such as "Harmony of human body and natural environment", "Harmony of human body and soul theory", "Five organs with emotions theory" and "personality temperament theory". The cross-culture differences between Chinese medicinal psychological theory and western psychological theory are also included.3. The study on traditional Chinese culture's influence on the diagnosis, treatment of TCM psychology. In the process of psychological diagnosis such as "look, smell, ask, taking pulse", the doctor should pay attention to some social psychological elements such as the economic condition, social status and character. All these are originates from traditional Chinese culture. The most important part in psychological treatment is the harmony of the human body and emotion. The comfort therapy, emotion therapy and music therapy all adjust the patients' emotion to make the Qi smooth which originates in the Yin and Yang theory and Five elements theory.4. The study on traditional Chinese culture's influence on the prevention-cultivation effect of TCM psychology. In the traditional Chinese culture such as Confucianism, Daoism and Buddhism,there are many great thoughts such as "preventing diseases before it happens" and "cultivation both your body and your emotion". In this paper, we choose some thoughts such as "calm down your emotion", "controlling your desire to protect your soul" and so on to explain traditional Chinese culture's influence on the prevention-cultivation effect of TCM psychology.The value and inspiration of traditional Chinese culture on TCM psychology. Through the analysis of the problems in the shift of modern psychological treatment and modern medicine mode and the explanation of TCM psychology's advantage, such as the "the harmony of body and soul" in the whole concept, "the high value of people" in the humanistic medicine view, "the golden mean" in the harmony view and "awareness of unexpected development" in the "preventing diseases before it happens" concept.we prove that TCM psychology can provide some inspiration for the shift of modern psychological treatment and modern medicine mode.
Keywords/Search Tags:Chinese traditional culture, Traditional Chinese medicine culture, Traditional Chinese medicine psychology
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