Traditional Chinese psychotherapy ideas and theories were initially formed with the establishment of the theoretical system of Chinese medicine. Chinese psychology classifies mental activities into seven types: happiness, anger, sadness, thought, grief, fear and fright, which are called the seven emotions. Spiritual activities are located in the heart, and “the heart is the master of the mind” is achieved through the heart’s control of the five organ systems, the five organs of the qi and blood and regulation is the basis for the maintenance of spiritual activities, qi and blood and regulation of the seven emotions in harmony, the five organs function abnormally, there can be excessive and prolonged changes in the seven emotions, that is, due to disease and depression. On the contrary, the abnormalities of the seven emotions can also affect the function of the internal organs: “anger hurts the liver”, “happiness hurts the heart”, “thinking hurts the spleen”, “worry hurts the lungs “, “fear hurts the kidneys”, that is, because of depression and disease, so we can see the close connection between mental activities and the function of the internal organs. 1, the basic prototype of the theory of emotion and will phase victory Emotion and will can cause disease, and the regulation of emotion and will can cure disease, from the beginning of the “Nei Jing”, medical doctors have used such a method to clinical. Su Wen – Yin and Yang Ying Xiang Dazheng” records: “anger hurts the liver, sadness is better than anger; ……. The “Great Treatise on Yin and Yang” states that “anger hurts the liver, sorrow is better than anger; …… happiness is sad, fear is better than happiness; …… thought hurts the spleen, anger is better than thought; …… worry hurts the lungs, happiness is better than sorrow; …… fear hurts the kidneys, thought is better than fear”. The basic principle of psychotherapy to cure diseases. The “yu” of “yu” has the meaning of depression and melancholy, which is a kind of mental activity. It can be regulated by using the method of the mutual victory of emotion and will. The “Medical Formula” points out that: “the extreme emotion and will, non-medicine can be healed, must be overcome by emotion”, the Sui Dynasty famous doctor Yang Shanshan in the “Huangdi Neijing Tai Su”: “disease has been born in the wind, cold, summer and humidity, diet men and women, non-heart disease can be acupuncture soup medicine to go; joy and anger, worry and thought injury to the gods for the disease. First of all, we must clear the nature of God, to go to the happiness, anger and worry, and then to needle medicine benefit and help the “Chinese medicine with the method of emotional and spiritual phase victory to treat emotional and spiritual diseases has a long history. 2, the rapid development of psychotherapy of the Jin-Yuan period, Zhu Danxi has a wealth of experience in the treatment of emotional diseases, especially insightful on the treatment of depression, he said in the “pulse of the evidence of the treatment of the seven emotions”: “anger for vomiting blood and food discharge, frying thin syncope, chest full of pain in the dorsum, food is a gas reversal and not down …… tendons slow, anger injury to the liver, for qi rebellion, sadness cure anger. happy for laughing, Mao Ge anxiety injury, gas does not collect, even mad, happy sad, gas is slow, …… Thinking for sleeplessness, good lying faint indistinctness, the three jiao blockage, throat adverse, vomiting bitter tendon impotence, self-promotion, do not like to eat, thinking hurt the spleen, for qi knot, anger cure thinking. Fear of injury to the kidneys, for qi does not work, thinking about treating fear.” From this passage, we can see that Zhu Danxi first inherited the basic ideas of the Nei Jing on the mechanism of illness caused by emotions and then described in detail the specific symptoms manifested by the abnormalities of the internal organs caused by emotions in conjunction with clinical practice. Inspired by the principle of the five elements, Zhu Danxi describes the symptoms of “sadness over anger”, “fear over happiness”, “anger over thought”, “happiness over worry”, and “thought over fear”. On the basis of “sadness is better than anger”, “fear is better than joy”, “anger is better than thought”, “joy is better than worry”, “thought is better than fear”, and “thought is better than fear”, Zhu Danxi has created a variety of methods to overcome emotions with emotions to treat diseases caused by the bias of emotions. In clinical practice, Zhu Danxi is also good at using psychotherapy. He once treated a person suffering from illness due to worry, coughing and vomiting blood, sallow face, medicine for ten days did not work, said his brother Chen Zhuyuan said: “this disease has lost will and hurt the kidneys, must use happy medicine can be cured. He asked his brother, Chen Zhuyuan, to say, “This disease is caused by a loss of will and injures the kidneys, and must be cured by using happy medicine. In this case, Zhu Danxi used the treatment of emotion and will to overcome each other, to cure sadness with happiness, fire over gold and cured. He also treated a woman who did not eat because she was thinking about her illness, and her face was lying in the north for half a year, but she was gradually cured because of her anger. Danxi Weng Chuan said: “The former is happy to overcome sadness, the latter is angry to cure the thought, then all the depression is resolved.” It is believed that “all illnesses in the human body are born of depression”, and the “Yue Ju Wan”, which has been used since it was established to move qi and open depression, is still an effective formula for clinical management of depression. Zhang Zihe was an outstanding master of psychotherapy in Chinese medicine, and he noticed that the occurrence of many clinical diseases was related to emotions. His psychotherapeutic cases, recorded in “Confucianism” and handed down to this day, have reached a considerable level in terms of traditional Chinese medicine theoretical analysis and modern psychotherapeutic reviews. The treatment for the depression of emotion and will involves dredging the liver and Qi, bitter and pungent, quenching the wind in the liver, clearing the heart and fire, strengthening the spleen and stomach, activating the blood circulation, resolving phlegm and cleaning the drinks, benefiting the qi and nourishing the yin, etc. The medicine is fresh, flexible and inspiring, and fully aware of the importance of spiritual treatment for the depression, believing that “the evidence of depression lies in the ability of the patient to move his emotions and change his nature”. 3. The psychotherapy of emotion and will was matured in the Ming and Qing dynasties. Clinical doctors of various disciplines paid more attention to the causes and mechanisms of the seven emotions, and the extant literature has discussed the illnesses of emotion and will. Zhang Jinyue devoted a section to “Emotional and Chi Diseases” in “Classical Classic – Huitong Class”, and the etiology of emotional and chi diseases and their diagnosis and treatment were also discussed in “Jinyue Quanshu”, and it was pointed out that “those who are sick with emotions are not relieved by emotions”, and “those who are sick with depression are not relieved by emotions If the disease is caused by depression, it is difficult to go to the effect unless it is soothing and willing”.