Physical Characterized Expression And Explanation

Ancient China is rich in theory and clinical experiences of mentalillness. But because of the influence of mind-body monism and TraditionalChinese Medicine entirety view ,most of mental illness was taken as bodyillness to cure and explained by the theory of yin-yang and five elements anddistinguished in the theory of qi, blood, body fluid and the zang-fu organs asother diseases The knowledge of psychological medicine in ancient china isnot agreement with the language of modern psychological medicine andhardly dialogue each other however mental illness exist objectively and therewas large amount of materials about mental illness in ancient Chinese andalso systematic knowledge about the difference of mental illness. Relative tothe modern medicine, the special course of psychological medicine was notsegregate from and consummate psychotherapy theory was not establishedalso. But this is exactly characteristic of Traditional Chinese psychologicalMedicine, express the physical explanation of psychological diseases fromAncient Chinese Culture. There is intimate relation between culture andmental illness, so, traditional Chinese culture is significantly influential tothe theory and practice of psychological medicine. The badly factor in socialculture environment is hotbed of mental illness. Traditional Chinesephilosophy builds the inner space of Chinese people by generation, andinfluences the theory establishing of Chinese psychological medicine.This article draw assistance from the knowledge of illness in modernpsychological medicine , mainly investigate cognitions of some commonmental illnesses from ancient Chinese people, the purpose is to readout theessential understand of this disease, attempt to classify this disease tomodern category and approach deeply cognition characteristic of mentalillness in Traditional Chinese Medicine, meanwhile discuss the influence ofpsychological medicine theory and people psychology in different era. It isessential to conduct the historical reorganization of ancient psychologicalmedicine both for the value of historiography and clinical practice, it is alsobeneficial to rebuild the theory of Traditional Chinese psychologicalmedicine, and deepen the cognition of Chinese psychological medicine ,enrichthe theory system of Traditional Chinese medicine, even bring some inspiration to the modern psychological medicine and contribute to the development of native psychotherapy.