The Zhuangzi Mental Health Thought

The contemporary concept of mental health originated fromthe west, and its clear definition appeared in 20th century. Many foreignresearchers explored its standards from their different perspectives Suchresearches usually refers to the individuals' adaption to surroundings,the relation between their behaviors and social norms and symptoms etc.,So mental health refers to a positive mental state of individauls to adaptto surroundings.With the accelerating development of mordern technologies and rapidsocial changes, many people feel the tremendeous mental pressures, and theimportance of mental health has become more and more obvious. In the chinesehistory, there were also many significant social changes which broughtmental pressure to people, so there were many ways to preserve one'shealth. they are connected with contemporary mental health. Zhuangzhou livedin a changing society and faced a very hard life, so he looked upon thepreservations of life and focused on the mental pressure and their painfulconsequences, Therefore, it is worthwhile to study his thoughts. on mentalhealth. The paper consists of three parts:1. the philosophy background of his idea on mental health. Itconsists of philosophical concepts and his ideas about .life. Thephilosophical concept refers "God" "Fate" "Morality" the idea of liferefers to his idea of settlement and freen.2. the standard of mental health developed by zhuang zhou. He believedthat the only way to release one's mental pressure was to adapt to thenature, society and onese1f; the approaches to reach mental health. Theserefers to golden mean, adaption to the nature, quietness and free' life andetc.3. the evaluation of his idea about menta1 health. The author suggestedthe significant difference between his time and mordern society made histhoughts beared some unavoidable limits, but his thoughts did great1yinf1uence chinese peop1e. His thoughts sti11 have theoritical andpractical significances in today's psychotherapy.