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elationships with one's stress appraisal, sense of self-efficacy, perceptions of social support, way
of coping, and the impacts on one’s job satisfaction, health and well-being were studied.
Collective Coping Scale was the first time developed and tested in the study. Research and clinical
implication of the study will be shared and discussed.
4017.4 Cultural semiotics of treatment object construction and symbolic roles-interaction in
traditional Chinese medicinal praxis, Z.Y. Liu, Yantai Normal University, Yantai, China
Believing that traditional Chinese medicine has no separation of body vs mind and isolated
individuality as its working principles, and that, semiotically speaking, any discourse-practice
system only deals with what it constructs as its subject matter, this study makes a cultural-semiotic
analysis of the treatment object construction and symbolic role-interaction in traditional Chinese
medicinal practice, focusing on the mutually constructive relationship. Understood as a cultural
discourse & practice system, the broad semiotically relevant cultural contexts to traditional
Chinese medicine are analyzed, and, its unique integration of body-mind and it’s social-cultural
involvement, is compared with Western-styled psychotherapy, with brief comments on meaning
construction in cultural etic-emic dimensions.
4017.5 Perspectives on self by narrative psychotherapy and psychiatry, N. You, Yantai Normal
University, Yantai, China
In narrative psychotherapy, self is construed more as a symbolic construct through a process of
discourse or dialog. By rendering an account of experience in personally significant terms, people
construct a meaningful story of not only the events that constitute lives but also selves as
protagonists, that is, as being-in-the-world, thus opening up the space for existential possibilities
and personal growth. In psychiatry, the individual is abstracted from the world of his own
experience, and the fullness of human living is reduced to theoretical samples through conceptual
labeling and instrumental manipulations.
4017.6 Taostic approach of transpersonal psychology to counseling and psychotherapy, M. Lee,
Sino-American Institute for Transpersonal Studies, Santa Ana, CA, USA
The fundamental belief of the transpersonal psychology is a psychology that studies the
experiential reality of the transcendent levels of experience and their value for human
development. Transpersonal counseling and psychotherapy integrates various approaches, eastern
and western, northern and southern, to promote people’s holistic health body, mind and spirit.
Taoism has been practicing in China over several thousands of years. Through Toistic listening
and going with the flow of the client, the therapist becomes a listener of the heart and spirit, an
observer of the deep consciousness and a follower of the Tao. In other words, the helping
relationship is a process of opening the inner self and the cooperation with the universal Self.
4018 INVITED SYMPOSIUM
Culture and strategies in entrepreneurship and innovatio
Convener and Chair: Z.M. Wang, China
Co-convener: M. Frese, Germany
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