Psychotherapies were introduced into China and developed quite well in the past two decades.The author suggests that the development of psychotherapies for the Chinese should be integrated the traditional cultural issues with the different schools of Western psychotherapies. This article reviews the traditional cultures,which deeply influenced the people's mind and behavioral patterns; and the common kinds of modern psychotherapies practiced in China now.Particularly, the author suggests that the therapeutic skills to learn and experiments to collect, as well as cultural issues to concern will be focused on more by the Chinese therapists.

Western psychotherapeutic approaches have been introduced into China in the past two decades, but the problem of how to integrate these methods meaningfully with the Chinese culture remains. This article shows the author's view that psychotherapists should understand a client's presenting problem on three levels during interviewing with the client. Sexual desire is viewed as a core intra-conflict of the client, covered up by relevant life experiences (e.g. love affair) and mental symptoms (e.g. anxiety, depression). The therapeutic process conducted by a therapist consists of: 1) to clarify symptom manifestations and make a diagnosis in accordance with the client's complaints; 2) to understand the client's life experiences and love affairs and to respond with empathy; and 3) to interpret the core intra-conflict and the relationships between the symptoms and the covert sexual desire. Three cases presented here illustrate the process of therapeutic interactions proposed.

Psychotherapies were introduced into China and developed quite well in the past two decades.The author suggests that the development of psychotherapies for the Chinese should be integrated the traditional cultural issues with the different schools of Western psychotherapies. This article reviews the traditional cultures,which deeply influenced the people's mind and behavioral patterns; and the common kinds of modern psychotherapies practiced in China now.Particularly, the author suggests that the therapeutic skills to learn and experiments to collect, as well as cultural issues to concern will be focused on more by the Chinese therapists.

Objective:to study help seeking behavior of depressive patients presented as somatic complaints.Method:62 patients with depression presented with somatic complaints in general hospital and 33 presented with depressive mood in psychiatric clinics were collected. All subjects received assessment with HAMA, HAMD and a research interview.Result:depressive patients in general hospital mainly complained as poor appetite (68%), difficult in falling in sleep (66%), chest discomfort (58%), palpitation (55%), and fatigue (45%). They were different significantly to depressive patients to psychiatric clinics in level of education, help seeking behavior, illness attribution. 55 of them complained loss half of their work capacity.Conclusion:depressive patients presented as somatic complaints in general hospital consist a separate subgroup with depressive disorders.

Objective It aims to investigate prevalence of depressive symptoms among the elderly in community and to understand their related social factors. Methods Four neighborhood committees were randomly selected with cluster sampling as survey sites. Enrolled residents at age of 60 to 89 years were evaluated with a general background inventory and a geriatric depression scale(GDS). All the data were input to a microcomputer and were analyzed for its relevant factors with SPSS13. 0 software by multivariate logistic regression model. Results Totally, 1731 elderly people in the community were interviewed and rated with the inventory and scale mentioned above, and depressive symptoms were found in 297 of them, with prevalence of 17. 2 percent. Multivariate logistic regression analysis showed that there were seven factors associated to their depressive symptoms in the elderly, including family expenditure, housing condition, medical condition, familial support, hobbies in spare-time, ability to take care of oneself and participation to social activities. Conclusions A few social factors, such as living alone, insufficient income for family expenditure, disability of self care-taking, lack of hobby in spare-time, less participation to social activities, lack of familial support and severe chronic diseases by serf-evaluation, are all associated with depressive symptoms in the elderly.

The DSM-5 cross-cutting symptom measures were developed by the DSM-5 Task Force and Work Groups to serve as a review of mental systems in each patient who presents for mental health evaluation and treatment.The cross-cutting symptom measures have two levels.Level 1 questions are a brief survey for adult patients and for child and adolescent patients.Level 2 questions provide a more in depth assessment of certain domains.The comprehensive symptoms could be evaluated through the objective assessment other than symptoms fit nearly into the diagnostic criteria.The following are briefly introduced.

Objective: To sum up characteristics of hotline counseling about mental health problems in Shanghai. Method: All records of hotline counseling from 1990 to 2000 were input into computer. Retrospective analysis was done. Results: In the past 10 years, the main issues in hotline counseling were associated with love affairs (18.1%), emotional troubles (15.8%), psychosis (11.3%), and interpersonal relationship (8.1%), which were also related to the help-seekers background, such as gender, age, education levels, occupation and marriage status.

Objective Although heart transplantation surgery has become more common,little is known about the psychological status of patients waiting for a heart transplant.Method Ninety-three patients registered for heart transplantation from March 2013 to March 2014 in a large general hospital in Shanghai were assessed by a psychiatrist using the Hamilton Depression Scale (17 items) and the Hamilton Anxiety Scale.Out of them 36 were preoperatively admitted to the Cardiac Surgery Department.The scales were assessed repeatedly at the 1st day,3rd day,7th day,10th day and so on until the operation took place.Result The mean scores of HAMD and HAMA of 93 patients in the waiting list were separately 13.11 ±3.81 and 14.20±4.57.Among them 18(19.4％) were classified as moderately depressed,31(33.3％) had moderately anxious symptoms,and 14(14.1％) had severe anxious symptoms.Thirty-six patients were preoperatively admitted to hospital.Their mean scores of HAMD and HAMA were separately 13.19-± 3.82 and 16.17 ± 4.35.Among them 7(19.4％) were classified as moderate depression at the time of admission,16 (44.4％) had moderately anxious symptoms and 9 (25.0％) had severe anxious symptoms.The scores of HAMD had significant difference (t =3.383,P =0.002) before and after admission.Paired t test was separately conducted to analyze the first assessment and the 3rd-day assessment of HAMA and HAMD total scores after admission of all the inpatients.The results showed the scores were statistically different (for HAMA,t =2.786,P =0.009; for HAMD,t =14.024,P =0.000).Repeated ANOVA was used to analyze the recipients who had three assessments.The results had statistical difference (for HAMA,F =4.568,P=0.020; for HAMD,F=5.626,P =0.034) and the difference of HAMD score at different time points had a linear trend (F =8.273,P =0.013).Conclusion After hospital admission,the depression symptoms will be significantly alleviated.When waiting for the transplant in the hospital,the anxiety symptoms alleviate slightly in three days and then aggravate significantly.The depression symptoms alleviate slightly continuously.

Since the 1990s, studies on intemet addiction and mobile phone addiction have been concerned.Of which, internet addiction refers to internet surfing via personal computers, and mobile phone addiction is usually set within the phone calls and sending short message.In recent years, the time and frequency people using mobile phones have been increasing rapidly with the popularity of smart phone and the development of mobile Internet.Some severe cases show an excessive use of mobile phone, even dependent or addictive symptoms.These results in a variety of physical, psychological and social problems of the individuals.However, today's mobile phone dependence or addiction is beyond the scope of calling and texting, but more on the use of the network function.So it needs to redefine this behavior addiction and its criteria by combining both internet addiction and cell phone addiction.It is named as mobile internet addiction.The definition would help to study the mechanism of the development of mobile internet addiction, and provide theoretical foundations for developing effective intervention strategies.

Surveys on depression status of elderly population in a community of Shanghai Jing'an District were carried out in 2005 and 2008 respectively. The cluster sampling method was used in the study,1731 and 2315 community residents aged 60 -89 were selected in two surveys. The depression status was evaluated with geriatric depression scale (GDS). During the first survey 297 out of 1731 people were identified as depression with a prevalence rate of 17. 2%; during the second survey 374 out of 2315 people were found to have depression with a prevalence rate of 16. 2%. The factors related to depression status included family support, hobby, ability of self-taking care, family finance and chronic diseases.