Nowadays, there are more and more various psychological diseases, and people's demand for mental health services is increasing. However, the effective services that the psychology community can provide are far from satisfying the people. The reason is that there are great problems in the Chinese psychology community from theoretical research to practical application. As we all know, China's current mainstream psychology belongs to completely imported Western psychology. Of course, experts and most people who study psychology believe that only the West has psychology, but China does not have psychology, which is ignorance and blind admiration for foreign countries.
We know that Western thinking is a figurative thinking and analytical thinking method, that is, it can only understand tangible and form-based things, cannot understand intangible existence, is good at analyzing, and divides things into very fine and microscopic. This way of thinking has made great achievements in studying material phenomena. Therefore, Western technology is very developed, but it is not feasible to study invisible psychological and spiritual phenomena, because life phenomena, especially psychological and spiritual phenomena, are organic wholes, invisible and abstract, and cannot be separated, so a "holistic view" is needed, and "abstract thinking" is not "attached to appearance".
Mental phenomena are different from material phenomena. Material refers to the objective reality that exists independently outside people's consciousness and can be reflected by human consciousness. is relatively stable and unchanging. No matter who studies it, the results are consistent, but mental phenomena are changeable and very changeable, and are easily affected by subjective influence. In addition, Western psychology is based on the Western "analytical thinking" and "image thinking", so there are many schools, including behaviorism, psychoanalysis, humanism, cognitive schools, etc., just like a blind man touching an elephant, he can only describe certain aspects of the entire psychological activities one-sidedly, each with one's own opinion, and has great limitations.
Cognitive therapy in Western psychotherapy is a therapy used by many consultants. Cognitive therapy was produced in the United States from the 1960s to the 1970s. It is a psychotherapy method that affects people's emotions and behaviors based on the cognitive process of people, which affects their emotions and behaviors, assuming Theory assumes , and changes the client's bad cognition through cognitive and behavioral technologies, thereby correcting and adapting to the psychological treatment method of bad behavior. The basic view of cognitive therapy is that cognitive processes and the misconceptions they lead to are mediators of behavior and emotions, and maladaptive behavior and emotions are related to maladaptive cognition.
Cognitive therapy often uses cognitive reconstruction, psychological coping, problem solving and other technologies to conduct psychological counseling and treatment, among which cognitive reconstruction is the most critical. Representative figure Ellis believes that individuals experiencing a certain event's cognitive views on this event are the root cause of their emotions and behaviors. Unreasonable cognition and beliefs cause bad emotional and behavioral reactions. Only by guiding discussions can the purpose of treatment be achieved. Another representative, , Baker , also pointed out that the root of psychological disorders comes from abnormal or distorted ways of thinking. By observing and exploring these ways of thinking, analyzing and criticizing, and when transforming into a reasonable way of thinking, the patient's pain can be relieved, the mental illness can be cured, and the environment can be better adapted to.
The theoretical assumption of cognitive therapy seems to make sense, but it ignores these fundamental premises: First, cognition belongs to human conscious activities. In terms of the order of psychological development, the first is instinctive psychological activities, that is, instinctive behavior and emotions. This is innate and possessed without acquired learning. Through genetic inheritance, consciousness is developed in acquired environments and through learning in human society. If a newborn baby is raised in an environment isolated from human society, consciousness will not develop consciousness. Interested friends can search for the story of "Indian wolf child".In fact, we can also understand this by observing the child in reality. You can apply cognitive therapy to infants and young children. You tell a 3-year-old child that his cognition is wrong and what should be done. Look at what the child will react. Anyone with a little common sense knows that the child cannot understand it at all.
2. The occurrence and development of consciousness is developed on the basis of human instinctual psychology, that is, the development of various feelings, the satisfaction of various basic needs, and the full development of individual visual, auditory and other feelings can ensure the development of thinking ability, the satisfaction of human basic needs, especially psychological needs: sense of security, acceptance and recognition, love and other needs, and Only when fate develops to the stage where consciousness is dominated. Only when learning some natural laws and social rules can people act rationally, otherwise human life will stagnate in the instinct stage. Even if conscious activity is active, consciousness cannot dominate human life. When encountering things, they are always responding with instinctive reactions.
3. In reality, many people, especially those with psychological problems, have not developed to the stage where consciousness can dominate life, that is, they lack rationality. The reactions to things are instinctive behaviors and emotions, which are irrational. We can easily observe that many people lose their temper when they encounter things and are often anxious. The root cause is that the psychological development of these people is immature and stays at the level of instinctive psychology.
To sum up, if the theoretical method of cognitive therapy is to work, it must be based on people's psychology that is mature, consciousness can dominate the life state, and they are rational. But if people are mature and rational, then they cannot have psychological diseases. Moreover, in real life, many people's psychological development level is at the instinct stage, and they have not developed to the rational stage where consciousness can dominate life. The reactions when encountering things are instinctive, and they often think afterwards, but the same is true next time. Therefore, in reality, people will generally sigh: I know the truth, but it just can't be done. For example, many people know that beating and scolding children is wrong, which will hurt children's psychology, but when they encounter children's mistakes, they will still call, and they will regret it afterwards. If they continue to fight next time, can you say that their cognition is wrong? The truth is very clear, but when something happens, it is a ruthless roar.
Therefore, it can be said that cognitive therapy is detached from reality, stays on superficial understanding, lacks overall understanding and deep understanding of the mechanism of human psychological development, and lacks observation of the actual psychological state of people, so it has become a practice that only knows how to "talk big truths" and cannot solve practical problems.
In today's era of great changes, the world is full of uncertainty, but our country has made great progress and achievements in all aspects. As the field of psychology, we should not blindly worship Western psychology, but should explore wisdom from our great culture for thousands of years, draw nourishment, establish a Chinese psychological system, vigorously develop psychological treatment methods for Chinese culture, promote the psychological development of the Chinese people, escort the mental health of the Chinese people, and contribute to the realization of the great rejuvenation of the Chinese nation!
