The Research Of Chinese Ancient Mental Health

The concept of mental health came from the west, present research can not discover the essence of this issue. The west scientific psychology insists the general right of culture and value neutrality position, it neglects the influence of culture on the name, but in fact it pursuers the west white oriented psychology to other cultures. This will do harm to Chinese native mental health research. There was no scientific psychology in ancient China, but there was rich psychology thoughts in traditional Chinese culture, includes mental health thoughts. Only by research these traditional thoughts systematically, can make the essence of Chinese traditional mental health thoughts clear.This text proceeds with firsthand materials and second hand materials, analysis the develop route of Confucianism, Taoism, Buddhism and traditional medical science ,summarize their meaning and influence to Chinese's traditional psychology constructing.The harmony between man and nature is a foundation of Chinese ancient philosophy, it is source of people's survive and home of meaning, it also is people's ideal life style.The essence of mental health is the realization to life meaning, is the answer to why people live. Confucianism, Taoism and Buddhism have provided their own ideal about life meaning. The Confucianism pay attention to people's social value, maintain people realize one's own value during the process of fulfilling community responsibility. The Taoism pays close attention to people's originally real value, man has the same source with nature, so people has the unquestionable rationality. All external standards...