The Soul Call Custom In Wudang District In Hubei Province

To professional medical practitioners, ways to explain sickness rely on medical reasoning. However, patients have their own logical ways to explain cause of sickness; their thoughts are affected by social cultural variance resulted in different medical consultation behavior.Chinese, Western and Folk medicines have different views on the study of Night Terrors(NT). Western psychiatrist believes it is sort of anxiety due to stress, calls it one kind of child sleep barrier sickness. Chinese doctor explains it being a series of attitude and behavior change over psychological dysfunction. Folk doctor thinks it is sort of"soul away from body"resulted from various reasons, and believes it can be treated by kinds of soul call soul retrieval method."Soul call"and"soul retrieval"are treatments through certain sort of ceremony which helps retrieve the"soul away from body", so as to rectify the messy and complicated mental and physical conditions. They have close linkage with Wudang local religious culture, that is ghost and god culture, which has influence over Wdang people's psychological thinking and behavior. We may understand people's thoughts via the culture of"soul call""soul retrieval", because they are full of cultural implication.In order to cure NT, Wudang people usually adopt multiple ways. That is to say, Wudang people often use formal and informal medicine system, Traditional Chinese medicine, Western medicine and Folk medicine at the same time. The main factors that influence NT sufferers are not only economics, but also traditional cultural identity and utilitarian thoughts that want to avoid danger.By the research of folk medicine about NT in Wudang district, the author believe that the future medicine should be an integrated one that combines healings of a patient's body, mental and spirit. Only in this way, the disease will be really overcome. The aim of this research is to promote localization of psychological science and psychological consulting in Wudang, to guide the current reform of rural medicine system.