The Unheard Cry of a Successful Asian Psychologist

The Unheard Cry of a Successful Asian Psychologist

Abstract This paper addresses the important issues of making it as an Asian psychologist in an overwhelmingly white academic field. Based on my professional and personal struggle to achieve success as a psychologist in both academia and clinical practice, I want to...
Existential Positive Psychology and Integrative Meaning Therapy

Existential Positive Psychology and Integrative Meaning Therapy

Abstract The unprecedented changes in our society because of COVID-19 and the fourth industrial revolution (4IR) shows that our healthcare system and the medical approach to psychotherapy can no longer meet the mental health needs of society. This paper first...
Remembering John Scull – a Scholar and a Gentleman

Remembering John Scull – a Scholar and a Gentleman

It all happened so fast. On July 20, 2020, Jacquelyn Nelson messaged me on Facebook, wondering if I could write something for John Scull’s memoirs, to which I gladly agreed. Two days later, I heard from Jacquelyn that John Scull was admitted to a hospital. Again, two...
Existential Positive Psychology and Integrative Meaning Therapy

意义疗法的理论、方法与技术: 基于存在积极心理学的视角

Abstract 摘 要: 意义疗法是以存在积极心理学为理论基础,以构建个体生命意义为目的,实现生活正 负两极性的动态平衡,从而解决其心理困扰获得心理治愈与成长的一种整合性心理咨询与治疗方 法。起源于 Frankl 意义学说的意义疗法是通往人类美好生活的路径,它源于对苦难生活所隐含意 义的本质认识。在理论上,意义疗法以意义定向看世界为中心,以意义管理理论和双系统模型为 支架; 在方法上,为保障意义获得,应遵循 8 个基本问题和 12 条原则,充分发挥意义源的作用,实现 意义获得的双路径统一; 在技术上,灵活采用趋向性( PURE)...
How a Healthy Dosage of Self-Transcendence can Overcome COVID-19

How a Healthy Dosage of Self-Transcendence can Overcome COVID-19

Abstract This article was initially published as the President’s Column for the July 2020 edition of the Positive Living Nesletter.  Never before have so many people experienced such a high level of stress and anxiety. Frontline health workers and service...