In the process of clinical psychotherapy, Yu Donghui, an expert in psychology, summarized and innovated a set of vivid, flexible and effective individual psychodrama treatment methods after refining some of the best components of psychoanalysis, mood therapy, visitor-centered therapy, hypnotherapy, psychodrama and other treatment methods. In my practice of treating depressed patients clinically, I have used some of the methods of healing therapy to treat depressed patients with remarkable effects, and I deeply appreciate the subtlety and power of it. I would like to introduce some of the therapeutic methods that are more commonly used in the clinical treatment of depressed patients and have better therapeutic effects, in the hope that they can serve as references for psychotherapists and clinical psychiatrists.
I. Theoretical basis of healing therapy.
Patients with depression are first presented to people as a listless, passive, passive, no color of life a depressed scene, then, where did their vitality go? Some psychologists use this word: “submersion”! It is not that they have no vitality, but they have repressed it and loosened it. At this time, the patient is indulging in an “intention” that the world around them is dark or lusterless, that life is hopeless, and that everything is meaningless. In contrast to normal people who observe the world objectively, the patient is observing the world subjectively and experientially; this is the language of the “mind” as opposed to normal language. Clinical psychiatrists often have difficulty communicating with patients from the language of objective rational thought, so they have to give medication in the hope that their brains will become excited and see the world with a different “intention,” but this process often comes at a material and physical cost. The clinical psychotherapist will have to look for a treatment that will lead to the negative “intention” of the depressed person, and healing therapy is one such treatment.
People are usually relaxed, their self-control is reduced, their deep emotions are easily enhanced, their imagination is increased, and the contents of their subconscious mind are easily surfaced. In healing therapy, it is in this de-rationalized state – the state of relaxation hypnosis – that the therapist fully engages the visitor’s primal senses, perceiving the intentions of his or her subconscious realm, where the therapist actively and symbolically induces the visitor to heal his or her wounds with his or her own ability to change his or her inner negative, or painful, intentions, evoking an internal drive that Stimulating the visitor’s psychological energy, which in turn reveals a happy, positive, and relaxed intention. This symbolic approach, in the words of Freud, “is characteristic of the subconscious mind”.
Commonly used healing therapies for depressed patients
The healing therapies summarized by therapist Yu Donghui are flexible and varied, but the general technique is based on the state of the visitor. The following is a description of the modalities that I am familiar with and commonly used in their application.
(i) Trauma repair.
In real life, a depression and indulgence is a “knot in the heart”, and everyone has a thousand knots in the heart, but in the heart of a depressed person, that “knot” is a serious negative knot. There is a law of psychological activity: knots with the same content will be combined with each other to form a bigger and bigger knot, and this knot will be stimulated when similar situations arise. We find that depressed patients are often accompanied by a lack of personality, and this lack is precisely the result of the “knots” they experienced in their growing environment, and those knots can be seen as the trauma of the visitor’s soul in the process of growing up.
There are major traumas and minor traumas. Major traumas, such as the unexpected loss of a close person, sudden loss of ability to live, or the breakup of a marriage, etc.; and minor traumas, such as suffering some career or interpersonal setbacks. People often have the idea that the past has already passed, and they can adopt a silent, isolated, and evasive approach to those traumas, thinking that the traumas can be repaired naturally after time, because time can wash away everything. However, more often than not, the trauma will always exist in the bottom of one’s heart, and once the trauma is suffered again, large or small, it may “stir up a thousand waves”. For depressed patients, because those negative intentions are not formed overnight, there must be a lot of spiritual “trauma” that makes them cope in an evasive and negative way. Therefore, for depressed patients, trauma repair is essential, and there are generally two types of repair.
1. Role reversal.
Role reversal is generally considered by psychologists to be applied in five states: (1) when information is needed; (2) when the protagonist must understand and experience the feelings of others, usually to bring up people to sense each other; (3) to help the protagonist see himself through the eyes of others, as if in a mirror, to help him wake up to himself; (4) to guide the protagonist towards spontaneity and to unload his defenses; (5) when the protagonist is the only person who can give advice and answers to these questions, making his own decisions and choices.
As psychotherapists, we all know that the individual has the potential for self-improvement, and we therapists are simply the ones who accompany the visitor on his nightly walk at a particular time. Our companionship is to reassure him in his time of confusion and fear, to find the light in his heart, and to be guided by it towards the light of his life. That light is his inner energy and strength; that light is the warmth that people rely on to survive, no matter what the situation. At certain times in life, we are shielded from our eyes and our minds by the grayness of life, when the light is there, but we don’t know where it is. This is a time when the role of transformation is for the individual to break away from his or her immersed self and take on the image of another person in his or her mind, in fact, a “transcendent” self, to start a dialogue with his or her “immersed” self, to lift the clouds and see the light and the light.
Role reversal in healing therapy is an individual therapy for those who have been traumatized or have been drowning in certain emotions. I often apply it in clinical practice to patients who have lost a loved one or have disorders in the relationship between husband and wife or parent and child, and the effect is remarkable.
2. Image Restoration.
The body is the capital of pleasure, psychological pleasure, is the power of the body to glow, as someone said: “A woman in good health, will naturally look good; happy mood, will naturally shine”. Each person’s life, will experience some small and large setbacks and injuries, can be happy, depending on the foundation of his personality formed after those encounters: is inferior? Cautious? Depressed? Or is it sunny! –Depressed people have a strong inferiority complex due to their individual abilities, their surroundings, or the pathological condition of their depressed mood. In the healing process, the therapist allows the patient to “see” their inner child, or their inner flora and fauna, to comfort, encourage, repair the physical “wounds”, and finally induce the patient to receive a warm bath of sunshine from within. As Nodl Coward said, “I am careful not to look at others, but at myself.” When one’s inner self is strong and warm, one’s transformation is natural.
In the process of restoration with animal images, many people intend themselves to be weak and pathetic bunnies, which I call the “bunny effect”. In the process of treatment, the bunnies are vocal, attacking, venting, forgiving, making peace and understanding with their powerful “enemies”… The treatment process is easy and relaxing, and the patient is radiant after the treatment, and the onlookers will truly feel a “dialogue between art and life. “(ii) Family Undercurrents
(ii) Family Undercurrents.
In psychology, it is said that “people are not educated, but influenced”, and this influence can also be considered as a kind of “infiltration”. Family therapy has a similar view: the counselor who needs help is not the “person with the problem” but the “person who carries the problem”. Yu Donghui’s view is called “family undercurrents”. He believes that under the individual’s subconscious, there is also a “family subconscious” and a “national subconscious”. After a person is born, he or she is not only influenced by the society, but also directly by the family system. The undercurrents flowing in the family system have always influenced its family members, even from the moment they are born, determining their future life path. In the case of depression characterized by “lack of love”, most of the family members have feelings of lack of love or lack of ability to give their love to their loved ones.
In the treatment of depressed patients with family undercurrents, healing therapy first allows the patient to feel the ability to survive given to him by his ancestors in the family undercurrents, and then, in an imaginative way, to feel the intended family trauma and induce the patient to repair the pain and trauma of his ancestors “for a thousand years” with his own strength, and to get the process of giving and feeling love from it. The process of giving and feeling love – the whole process of healing is often hazy and confusing, like the screening of a wonderful movie, which takes tens to thousands of years, and finally has a happy ending, with the “peace of mind” of the person being treated.
(iii) Personal growth.
According to Moreno, there are four kinds of hindrances present in the creation and spontaneous growth of the individual: (1) hindrances arising from family relationships (2) hindrances originating in childhood (3) hindrances of tradition and culture (4) hindrances of race. Obstructive activities prevent the individual from being fully aware of and corresponding to his or her inner needs and intentions, which, when ignored, become shadows that haunt the individual, and these shadows are what the individual needs to be aware of. Depressed patients have some parts of their psychological growth process blocked, and the corresponding psychotherapy needs to be a phased and continuous process, which is a process to break through each obstacle and promote personality maturity. Healing therapy contributes to the psychological growth of the patient in the following ways.
(1) Inner child self-pity
The TA theory (Interpersonal Communication Analysis), which advocates “I am good, you are good” as a therapeutic goal, describes each person’s ego state as a combination of three personalities: parent, adult, and child. The parent is the person’s own ability to take care of others and give his or her energy; the adult is the ability to think rationally and analytically as he or she grows up; and the child is the individual who is creative, imaginative, free, and at the same time feels his or her own weakness and passive negative power. The growth of the child’s personality is often directly related to the satisfaction of the “ego”. It is often in this area that depression is also impaired. In the process of restoration, the main thing is to find one’s inner child’s intention, to give loving care and warm support to the child, who is usually crying, and afterwards, to take him to a warm and romantic home, and then to obtain inner peace and satisfaction.
(2) Self-inferiority complex in the mirror
In the face of a world full of temptation and excitement, fierce competition in the absence of all-win warriors, everyone has a shadow of inferiority complex and timidity inside, but in the daily life and work, we have to hide their hearts can always emerge from the kind of perception, but must face the world in front of us with a positive mindset, otherwise, confusion will stall the steps forward. So, at the right time we need to quietly give some sunshine, some warmth and love to our inferior self. Healing therapy uses the intention of “mirroring oneself” to bring depressed patients from a gloomy inner state to a sunny and powerful one.
(3) Spatial Scan Self-Awakening
Moreno’s four obstacles to human growth are, in fact, the most basic one is the obstacle of interpersonal relationship. Everyone in the present state, without exception, accepts certain constraints and limitations. Most people with depression have a strong sense of constraint and limitation, which is why the mechanisms of despair, negativity and withdrawal appear. That is why finding the hindrances of depressed people allows them to reach a better restoration and harmony. Healing therapy mainly uses the intentional “environment of self”, so that patients can clearly understand their own obstacles and confusion, and further solve the shackles that bind their mind.
(4) Status quo of the projection of the protective mechanism of self-reinforcement
In healing therapy, patients can feel clearly how they are living in the world by means of “protective clothing of their own body” and “themselves in the water”, and whether this way is suitable for them and whether they are satisfied with it, under the guidance of the therapist. Under the guidance of the therapist, the patient will self-awareness, self-awareness, self-improvement ……
Conclusion
The human mind has three elements: love, security, and self-confidence. Without love, one will not love, without security, one will have fear, without self-confidence, one will have low self-esteem! Depression, at its most basic, is the absence of love and the inability to love: love yourself and love others! Like all therapeutic models, healing therapy believes in the inner strength of the client, and its most important feature is to motivate the client to “repair himself”. We also believe that it is the goal of every psychotherapist to help the patient find the love he has lost or not felt, so that he can develop self-love, self-confidence, and finally self-contentment to complete his personal psychological growth! At the same time, for a psychotherapist, it is enough to have the opportunity to go deep into another person’s heart, to feel the sadness and joy there, to accompany another heart that has been bruised and battered by hardships and trials, and to bring it from a negative and pessimistic state to a positive and optimistic, sunny and happy state, a process full of adventure and twists and turns, but also full of comfort and satisfaction. This is why the work of a psychotherapist is a respectable and sacred job. In a sense, saving the human mind is more important than saving the body itself. The doctor who saves the body has to go through unremitting efforts and exploration, while the doctor who saves the mind must not only have wisdom, but also inspiration and “inner show”. I also believe that in the course of his exploration of the human mind, he has also experienced many wonderful psychological journeys, and has ignited much of his life force in his exploration, which has illuminated the path of many students and visitors in their lives. That in itself is a process of respecting life, loving and treating it well. We wish that more psychotherapists can use their talents and wisdom to guide the way forward for more people with the light of humanity, just like Yu Donghui.