The psychological treatment of depression in Chinese medicine mainly includes “the method of winning over the five emotions”, “the method of reasoning and enlightenment”, “the method of suggestion therapy”, “the method of transferring emotions and changing sex “, “obeying emotions and desires” and “enjoying emotions and nourishing the mind”. In general, the method of “five emotions overcoming each other” is to consciously adopt an emotional and mental activity to overcome and restrain the emotional and mental diseases caused by certain adverse stimuli, so as to improve emotions and cure diseases according to the theory of “five elements overcoming each other and five emotions overcoming each other”. These include: sorrow over anger, fear over joy, anger over thought, joy over sorrow, and thought over fear. The method requires precautions: the therapy is mainly applicable to the correction of deviant emotions and treatment of various psychosomatic diseases caused by deviant emotions. For psychological variation, pathological emotions also have auxiliary treatment effect. The therapy should be used with caution for those who are physically weak or have serious organic diseases. The application of this therapy should be discriminatory, depending on the person, time and place, and should not be abused to add new adverse stimuli to the patient, delaying or aggravating the disease. In addition, there are other therapeutic methods such as reasoning and guidance, suggestive therapy, transferring emotions and changing sex, following emotions and desires, and enjoying emotions and nourishing the mind.