Soul Contract - A Psychologist's Diary

Author: Huang Guosheng
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Publish Date: 2007-02-02
Features: The theory of persona suggests that personality is composed of "personal masks." Each mask represents a side of a person, or a sub-personality. It is an integrated whole, made up of psychological elements such as cognition, emotion, and will. The combination of these elements is driven by "tasks" or occasions, and the persona is the psychological activity and behavior exhibited by people in specific contexts. Masks correspond to occasions. Psychological disorders arise when a mask is misused in the wrong occasion, or when a mask lacks or has an excess of certain components. Psychological therapy involves correcting masks, defining boundaries for them, and regulating their scope of use. Based on the author's years of clinical experience in psychological treatment, this book analyzes, clarifies, and answers various common psychological disorders in contemporary society in the form of essays and. The author also applies the fundamental principles of modern psychology to creatively reinterpret certain motifs in ancient Chinese mythology.