Academie voor Chinese Geneeswijze Qing-BaiBijscholingen
Academie voor Chinese Geneeswijze Qing-Bai
Becoming an Empty Vessel
The Energetics of Emotion, Psyche & Spirit
This seminar will include a brief history of psychiatry in Chinese medicine from the earliest ideas of gui/ghost, to the later concepts of qi qing/seven affects and wu shen/ five spirits. A more detailed examination of traditional psychiatric diseases such as: yu zhčng/depression, fan zao/ vexation and agitation, zang zao/ visceral agitiation, and dian kuang/ withdrawal and mania with the modern biomedical correlates of depression, bipolar disorder, anxiety disorder, and schizophrenia as defined by the DSMIV.
The feeling tones of the various emotional and spiritual aspects of the Five Elements will be explored. Special attention will be paid to examining the Taoist Cross and Taoist alchemy models to achieve deeper harmony between individual and nature and between body, mind, and spirit. This course will also show the psycho-emotional correlate to physical symptom and disease expression.
Further understanding will be demonstrated using face and tongue photographs taken in a Western medical setting. The most common therapies will be discussed including herbal medicine with modifications, and acupuncture, moxibustion, and bleeding. Personal practices of meditation, self-massage, breathing and dietary modifications will be discussed. Finally classification of the patients pharmaceutical drug therapy and its role in the treatment process will allow the practitioner deeper understanding of the mechanisms involved with the psychiatric patient.