Study On The Theories And Methods Of Behavior Therapy Of TCM

Psychotherapy of Traditional Chinese Medicine (TCM) is a vital part of TCM. It has lasted for thousand years. In this long history, the people of our country and experts on TCM in the dynasties have improved the theories of Psychotherapy of TCM and created many effective treatments, all of the above make lots of great contributions for Psychotherapy of TCM, Behavior therapy of TCM is one of effective treatments. In this dissertation, we study behavior therapy of TCM from the view of literature and empirical research. This dissertation consists of five parts.The first part presents the background, purpose and significance of this study, and summarizes the relevant theory of previous studies, and sorts out the modern clinical application on Behavior therapy of TCM.Through literature research, the second part summaries the related theory of TCM behaviorism, as the theory is based on Chinese traditional culture, so we can feel the strong flavor of Chinese traditional culture, and the theory has typical Chinese characteristics, such as" Men's natures are much the same; their habits become widely different", " oneness of nature and humanity" and so on. This section also discusses how those theories impact Behavior therapy of TCM.Through the study of ancient cases, the third part sorts out Behavior therapy of TCM, it is summarized as systematic desensitization, emotion control therapy, implosive therapy, aversion therapy, lessons therapy and so on, in order to show the practical value of Chinese ancient psychology therapy and serve the patients in deed. The fourth part is a comparison of Chinese and Western behavioral therapy, and insists on critical discrimination when dealing with the problems. Through the comparison, we find defects of Behavior therapy of TCM, such as the systematic deficiencies of the theory, steps have not been standardized, and the lack of dose-effect studies and so on. It also points out the advantages which modern psychotherapy can't replace, such as the treatment of individual differences, holistic treatment, patients'self-regulation, pay attention to preventing disease before.The fifth part is the innovation of TCM behavior therapy—decompression and relaxation training, which is a combination of relaxation therapy, TCM music therapy and nature-cultivation therapy, and we verify the good treatment effects of the therapy through the practice. Decompression and relaxation training combines TCM psychotherapy with western psychotherapy, overcomes the deficiency of both psychotherapies, opens up a new path for the research of indigenous psychology.