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4128 ORAL
Culture and psychology
Chair: Sonya Pritzker, USA
4128.1 Traditional Chinese medical treatment for depression, Sonya Pritzker, China Academy
of Traditional Chinese Medicine, USA
TCM, with its emphasis on the mind-body continuum and the relationship between person and
environment, offers a unique approach to psychological illness that provides valuable insight into
the understanding and treatment of depression. There exists a long history as well as contemporary
innovation in such understanding and treatment, the basics of which will be addressed in this
presentation.
4128.2 Origins of the self: The Sufi standpoint, Parthasarathi Mondal, Senior Lecturer, India
The body has been central to the creation of the self and the body-self construct is an armour for
the position whose goal is to refute selflessness as the original and thus true human condition. The
Sufi yearns for union with God by obliterating the sensual and sexual body which compels the self
to recognize itself. What is striking in Sufi psychology is the contention that it is homosexuality
and not heterosexuality which is the main obstacle to a man in overcoming his carnality. The Sufi
does this to thwart the possibility of readily accessible selflessness which homosexuality implies.
4128.3 Is positive self-regard a universal human need? -definitely, YES, Fan Zhou 1 , Ye Yang 1 ,
Xia Chen 1 , Nick Stirk 2 , 1 China, 2 UK
Positive self-regard has been thought to be a universal human need. However, in recent years, the
belief of universality of the basic need for self-regard is seriously questioned by many
cross-cultural studies. Since easterners might tend to be self-effacing in a self-report questionnaire,
both Rosenberg Self-Esteem (RSE) questionnaire and Implicit Association Test (IAT) was
conducted in this study to investigate the need for self-regard in Chinese and American students.
The results indicate both a dissociation of self-regard between the self-expressed and implicit level,
and a discrepancy of performance between Chinese students and American students.
4128.5 A study on mental health status of minority students in undeveloped region of Western
China, Hui Li, Jun Gao, Yunnan Normal University, Educational Science and Management
Departement, China
Objective: To understand the mental health status in undeveloped regions of western China.
Method: the study was carried out in 8 under developed areas in bordering Yunnan province of
China.1688 students of 10 minorities and the Han were investigated with Symptom Checklist
90(scl-90) and General Anxiety Test(GAT). Conclusion: Compared with inland and coastal
students, mental health of the minority students was serious; Mental health of minority students
was obviously poorer than that of the Han students in the same area; Within the same minority,
mental health of the minority students came from poor, remote, bordering areas was more serious.
4128.6 Social responsibility: A cross-cultural exploration during the SARS outbreak in Taiwan,
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