The Theory Of Buddhism And Mental Health

Nowadays the development of our society is advance by leaps and bounds. There are great achievements in Chinese economy since the reform in 1978. However, the development of Chinese mental health is backward. All kinds of investigations have shown the comparative backdrop of mental health in different social strata. In face of this increasing disproportional problem between economic growth and mental health, it has been becoming significant to protect Chinese mental health. At present the situation of research in psychology of China is under certain limitation. In this article I would like to elaborate the contribution of function of Buddhism in the process of mental prevention in China. This lies in the fact that Buddhism has good resources concerning the field of psychology. If we combine the Buddhism with psychology, it would explore a new method for the research of psychology in China. Besides Buddhism is one of Chinese diverse cultural perspectives, by using Buddhism, it would be easily accessible to Chinese population.After a lot of reading about Buddhism and psychology, and according to the fact of Buddhism and psychology, this paper tries to testify that the Buddhism which has plentiful resources about psychology would do good to mental health prevention, and it is a effective way that we combine the Buddhism with psychology. The author wishes more and more people of Buddhism and psychology will attach importance to and join in this research. So they can make more valuable achievements to solve the problem of Chinese mental health.First of all, Chapter One displays the Chinese mental health of different social stratum and the problems of Chinese psychology. Buddhism is a subject about psychology, and it has plentiful resources about psychology.In chapter two, the author displays the main theories of Buddhism about mentaladjust, which include the structure and process of mind——the Five Skandhas and theEight Consciousness; the Arisal of conditions and the means of Buddhist Practice.Chapter three gives two examples of the usage of Buddhism in psychology, namely Mindfulness Therapy and Sen Tian Therapy. These two theories reflect that the connection between Buddhism and psychology is feasible and effective. In chapter four, difficulties of Buddhism in preventing mental health have been analyzed. This mirrors that even though Buddhism can make contribution in psychology, it does have limitation. Then I expound on the characteristics and value of Buddhism of psychology and other inspirations of Buddhism to psychology.Finally, I summary the main ideas of this paper and points out the inadequate of the paper, which can help further research.Two sparkles are possibly given by this thesis as bellowed:Firstly, the psychology of Buddhism is front line. The research of this field is inadequate. This works is the achievement after a lot of reading about Buddhism and psychology, which can fill the blank space of this field.Secondly, this paper is not only from literal research, it is closely connected with fact in China. The author pays close attention to the fact of China, and testifies the main idea by the fact.