Community to break Build a psychology foundation of traditional Chinese medicine

Time: 2016-11-25

Source: China's traditional Chinese medicine

Author: Huang Bei

The treatment of mental illness, has traditionally been considered western medicine specialty, but in fact, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM) for thousands of years of development, contains rich psychological thought and concept, has accumulated strong knowledge of psychology, also formed the system of diagnosis and treatment of the theory of technology, but as an independent discipline, TCM psychology still exist a series of problems.

Psychology discipline leaders, China academy of traditional Chinese medicine of traditional Chinese medicine hospital, vice President of the original gate Wang Weidong that TCM psychology is facing the construction of subject system is not complete, clinical problems such as the lack of professional talents, and to increase the research investment and strengthen professional personnel training. After six years of exploration, Wang Weidong found a breakthrough from the community, principle of clinical research and personnel training of psychology of TCM development path.

Chinese medicine rooted in Chinese traditional culture psychology

Q: what kind of psychology of TCM is a subject, what are the specific treatment?

Wang Weidong: TCM psychology in the Chinese culture as the background, guided by the TCM theory, draw on modern science, especially the knowledge of modern clinical psychology and psychiatry, the study of human psychological activity rules, and to guide clinical practice a discipline.

TCM treatment of mental and psychological disease, there are many ways to sleep disease in the female medical partner pass fire a handful of wish by the technique, also can be regarded as a kind of traditional Chinese medicine therapy. Some traditional Chinese medicine regulating technique of body and mind, such as massage, acupuncture, qigong, or traditional Chinese medicine psychotherapy, such as modern phase - therapy, suggests that therapy, in the psychological treatment can treat mental illness.

It is worth mentioning that some learning thought and the theory of Chinese medicine technology, combined with modern clinical psychology treatment methods for innovation and transformation of the psychological approach is also considered the psychology of TCM treatments, such as read I advocate low import therapy - "TIP" technology system, Sun Zexian in psychotherapy, Zhang Bohua cognitive therapy of TCM, TCM intention of jian-jun zhu dialogue technology, etc.

Q: where is the difference of psychology of TCM and western medicine psychology? Psychological therapy in the treatment of traditional Chinese medicine and what advantage?

Wang Weidong: the psychology of TCM and western medicine psychology is rooted in different cultural soil, theory origin is not the same, this is the biggest difference between the two. After entering the local Chinese, western clinical psychology is necessarily affected by Chinese culture, especially the effect of Chinese medicine theory and knowledge, is likely to play a bigger role in clinic, because of that the traditional Chinese medicine psychology to form.

The way of thinking also has difference, the overall thinking of TCM psychology mainly use the east, dialectical thinking and concrete thought forms, and the analysis of the clinical psychology mainly use western thinking, logical thinking and abstract thinking form. In addition, both the research direction of each have emphasize particularly on, localization of TCM psychology research in clinical psychology and indigenous psychological treatment, construction and theoretical system and gradually improve the psychology of TCM clinical psychology system integrated with the world. Psychology is the development of traditional Chinese medicine theory and technology of traditional Chinese medicine, is also the development of clinical psychology theory and technology.

Chinese medicine mental therapy method fits the Chinese cultural background and social history, more able to meet the needs of the Chinese psychological treatment, treatment with low impedance, most can make patients satisfactory curative effect.

Don't have both shape and hinder the development of TCM psychology

Q: the psychology of TCM development have any difficulties?

Wang Weidong: the shortage of funds and the talent shortage is the biggest problem facing the psychology of TCM development. Although the method with traditional Chinese medicine in the treatment of mental illness of an ancient, but Mr King until the mid - 80 - m canal appeared in the psychology of TCM and the first academic conference of TCM psychology, before declaring TCM psychology as an independent discipline was born. Up to now, the traditional Chinese medicine psychology has just completed independent discipline construction work, has not yet formed a complete scientific system, combined with the research of TCM psychology, can temporarily to take advantage of the large sample, multi-center clinical research results to show. Coupled with lack of research funding, specializing in the psychology of TCM clinical professionals, which restricted the development of TCM psychology.

Q: why do Chinese medicine psychology discipline construction started late, development is not important?

Wang Weidong: one is the past research of traditional Chinese medicine, on the whole, ignore or belittle the "primary" or the role of "governing the mind", insisting that Chinese medicine and acupuncture in the chemical and physiological function, excessive emphasis on the influence of form to function and neglected the consciousness and modern influence to the function.

2 it is because of traditional Chinese medicine discipline differentiation serious lag, lead the lack of new subject, some subjects in the field of new development concept, are not good at bold introduction of new methods, new technology, hindered the new type of some of traditional Chinese medicine has a bright future, edge discipline, interdisciplinary, weak disciplines, with the rapid development of TCM psychology is one of them.

Q: what's the development advice?

Wang Weidong: to solve the above problems, the most fundamental is the need to increase educational world to the attention of the psychology of TCM industry, increase investment in scientific research, improve the personnel training mechanism. In addition, the formation of the international science and technology of TCM psychology at home and abroad to cooperate together, give play to the role of team, to the internationalization of TCM psychology and scientific research work is also very important.

Principle of clinical research and personnel training

Q: as TCM psychology discipline leaders, do you have any good experience to share?

Wang Weidong: from the community to break is a feasible path, to principle of clinical research and personnel training, this is I in PuHuangYu community in six years to develop TCM psychology concludes some experience in clinical and research work.

Six years ago, I signed with Beijing fengtai community management center "Beijing TCM psychology community training base" of the agreement, and in psychosomatic regulation of traditional Chinese medicine and Chinese medicine club PuHuangYu community to sleep clinics, using traditional techniques and the psychology of TCM theory of traditional Chinese medicine technology to help residents solve the problem of psychological disorder and insomnia, but also for the scientific research of TCM psychology has accumulated medical record information. In the future we will be in fengtai community to carry out more research work, based on the community clinical psychological treatment, enhance TCM psychological treatment equipment research and sleep medicine.

At the same time, we also attach great importance to the training work of TCM psychology. TCM psychology school training cycle is long, subject construction and talent development needs urgent, based on this, we focus on TCM psychological training, especially community mental talents of traditional Chinese medicine. The future we will train to fengtai community doctors as the center, to develop community college of TCM psychological doctors and therapists, and comprehensive training of all community medical staff, the fengtai community to build a national community TCM psychology popularized at the center of the community.

Q: from 3 armour hospital to the community, you experienced their heart road process how?

Wang Weidong: psychological gap, is inevitable in the community to promote TCM psychology program, I myself have inevitably produced the "overqualified" small mood, but in TCM psychology related training for community doctor, I feel the community doctors of TCM psychology this new subject, eager to accept the new knowledge, after the curative effect of residents gradually received feedback, I will gradually change the attitude, accumulation of clinical work in the community also solid foundation for the scientific research work.

At present, the psychological disease prevention and control of the situation, and community health institutions around residents, community doctors generally have higher affinity and good mass base, in the psychological health knowledge popularization, psychological disease screening treatment, severe mental patients management, etc., can play an important role. I want to have more and more doctors to driving down into the community, into the grassroots, there might be surprises.