Chinese experts including Wenpeng Wan and Margarete from Germany co-founded the Chinese-German Advanced Continuous Training Project for Psychotherapy, which has trained a large number of professionals for the field of psychotherapy in China. This article depicts the pioneering work by Wenpeng Wan for the Chinese-German Advanced Continuous Training Project for Psychotherapy and his irreplaceable and remarkable contribution to the program from the aspects of, firstly, the first program’s workshop held in Kunming in 1988 and, secondly, the subsequent programs.

The nature of the discipline of psychotherapy and the ethical issues in psychotherapy practice have been central themes that have provoked reflections among psychotherapists. This article begins with a brief introduction to the life of German systemic family therapist Helm Stierlin and his linkage with the Chinese-German Advanced Continuous Training Project for Psychotherapy, followed by a focused review of Stierlin’s reflections on the challenges facing modern science and the ethical difficulties faced by family therapists. He reconsidered the identity and role, professional quality, ethical responsibility and epistemological position of family therapists, and put forward his personal opinions. Stierlin believed that an epistemological reflection is necessary. He also carried forward the art of family therapists. Even today, nearly half a century later, Stierlin’s thoughts and opinions still contain profound significance of the times, giving people alarm and inspiration.

This article introduces the formation of the ideology and theory of systemic therapy by the German systemic family therapist Stierlin. He believes that human relations are a complex dialectical relationship between separation and reconciliation. Family therapy stresses on viewing things from a systemic perspective, that places people and their symptoms in the context of a big system in the surroundings to observe and treat. In addition, this article reviews the development and influence of the family delegation theory, as well as the relationship between Stierlin and the Chinese-German Advanced Continuous Training Project for Psychotherapy. Respect for intergenerational inheritance in family and family culture and customs not only brings family changes but also balances the beauty of art.

Objective:To explore the characteristics of coping style of college students and the mediation effect of resilience in the influence of self-acceptance on coping style under the stress of COVID-19.
Methods:In the period and areas of severe epidemic in China, a questionnaire was used to investigate the coping style, self-acceptance, and resilience of a total of 398 college students from Guangzhou; SPSS was used for significance test of difference and correlation analysis; AMOS was used for structural equation modeling.
Results:Under the stress of COVID-19, college students showed the following psychological characteristics: 1) the means of the positive coping style 2.09(0.40) and the negative coping style 1.54(0.49) were significantly higher and lower than the norm in the period without COVID-19, respectively. 2) Most correlations between the 9 variables from coping style, self-acceptance, and resilience were significant. 3) In the path of self-acceptance predicting positive coping, the Bootstrap 95% confidence interval of direct effect of self-acceptance was [-0.192, 0.048], and the path coefficient was not significant; the Bootstrap 95% confidence interval of mediating effect of resilience between the two was [0.049, 0.323], and the path coefficient were 0.89 and 0.75, that appeared to be significant. 4) In the path of self-acceptance predicting negative coping, the Bootstrap 95% confidence interval of direct effect of self-acceptance was [-0.789, -0.077], and the path coefficient was -0.92, which was significant; the Bootstrap 95% confidence interval of mediating effect of resilience between the two was [0.034, 0.727], and the path coefficients were 0.89 and -0.72, which both were significant.
Conclusions:Under the stress of COVID-19, college students’ coping style is characterized as being more positive; self-acceptance indirectly affects positive coping through the full mediation of resilience; however, self-acceptance can both directly and indirectly affect negative coping through partial mediation of resilience.

Objectives: To evaluate the relationship between psychological resilience and achievement motivation in community mental health service providers (CMHSPs) and to explore how to stabilize the group of CMHSPs by improving their mental health.
Methods:The Resilience Scale of Adult (RSA) was used to evaluate psychological resilience and the Achievement Motive Scale (AMS) for achievement motivation. The scales were distributed to all community service centers in the 16 regions of the city via the network of community mental health service, and 681 valid scales were collected.
Results:The means (SD) of achievement motivation and psychological resilience of the CMHSPs are -0.78 (13.47）and 109.73 (20.14), respectively. There is significant difference of achievement motivation in gender, major, education, and years of community mental health services. A significant association was found between achievement motivation and psychological resilience (r=0.410, p<0.001) by Pearson correlation test.
Conclusions:The mental health of CMHSPs should be emphasized. Developing the ability to cope with stress and strengthening trainings of interpersonal communication skills and social supports can improve achievement motivation of CMHSPs, stabilizing the group.

The mechanism of hypothalamic-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis dysfunction in patients with premenstrual syndrome (PMS) covers physiological, psychological, and social factors. From the perspective of physiological-social-psychological interaction, this article summarized the relationship between PMS and HPA axis dysfunction and its pathogenesis. The results found that women have a physiological basis for pressure sensitivity during the premenstrual period, and under the construction of social culture, patients with PMS have a stronger negative menstrual attitude than individuals without PMS, which leads to an increase in their subjective perceived stress during the premenstrual period. However, patients with PMS lack the corresponding stress coping ability, and failures of coping with periodic premenstrual stress lead to stress reaction dysfunction of HPA axis in patients with PMS, that is the phenomenon of low cortisol secretion under psychological stressors, thus forming an immobilized PMS reaction mode.

Self psychology was born in the United States in the 1970s, and originated from the classical psychoanalytic theory. Heinz Kohut, the pioneer of the theory of self psychology, integrated and put forward the concept of “self psychology” under the influence of development of psychoanalysis, social trend of thought, model of scientific exploration, and background of humanities and art at that time. Henceforth, the scholars in the “post-Kohut” period also made the theory of self psychology unceasingly burst out new vitality in their research and practice. In the 1980s, with the efforts of Chinese psychological researchers, the idea of self psychology also entered China. By summarizing and sorting out the current theoretical development of self psychology in the world, relevant research papers of self psychology published by Chinese scholars, the development of domestic training on self psychology, and the publication of books on self psychology, this article expounds the dissemination and development status of self psychology in China.

Gender dysphoria refers to the stress that results from the incongruence between gender that individuals experience or show and their gender assigned at birth, and is accompanied by the desire to change their gender assigned at birth. This article reviews the research on the personality of individuals with gender dysphoria, including their personality characteristics, related mental health status, and the status of their personality disorders. In addition, this article also introduces the measurements commonly used in the studies of personality and summarizes the intervention programs for people with gender dysphoria and their effects on personality, as well as the prospect of the research on personality characteristics of this group of people.

Motivational interviewing is a simple and effective therapeutic interview method from the West that rectify maladaptive health-related behaviors. The author combines the perspectives of evolutionary psychology with Chinese culture, especially the basic theory and operation of localized motivational interviewing such as the Tai Chi pushing hands strategy to form willing acceptance interviewing, that is motivational interviewing with distinct Chinese cultural characteristics based on the principles of ‘knowing yourself and others, reacting adequately, reality and harmony, and positive acceptance and striving.’ The willing acceptance interviewing not only enhances the cultural adaptability of motivational interviewing but also develops motivational interviewing in theory, making the teaching and application of motivational interviewing more operational.

False self refers to an individual being forced to submit to the environment prematurely, resulting in giving the individual an unreal feeling or a useless feeling. Clinically, psychological counselors often encounter clients with a shell of false self in their visit. Counselors often finds it difficult to establish a true connection with such clients. This article discusses the possible causes of false self, as well as the function of false self. In addition, the classification of false self in the context of Chinese culture has been discussed. Finally, the author also discusses the impact of the false self phenomenon on psychological counselors and psychodynamic workers, and proposes some coping strategies.

Through the film “Blue”, this article interprets from the psychoanalytic aspect that the early loss in Julie’s childhood experience caused defects in her personality structure and formed an inner depressive child in Julie. When she met with traumatic loss in her adult life, Julie, who had personality vulnerability, suffered from depression, and the inner depressive child was activated. Through mourning— to confront and experience all the complicated feelings including distress, sadness, anger, sense of being abandoned and so forth— she began to work through depression caused by the loss in adulthood, and the inner child in her was also seen and cared for. Julie was able to give up her fantasized idealized object, creatively repositioned the lost important object and her relationship with the important object, rebuilt love relationship in real life, and received renewal and growth of life.