Psychology Is Not Merely White

This ebook fleshes out the multicultural perspective of contemporary psychology, the multidisciplinary research and practice that the psychologists have undertaken since they got off the couch in Sigmund Freud's clinic. Through an UNESCO classified cultural and documentary heritage, "Huang Di Nei Jing, Volume Su Wen; 黃帝內經•素問", the parallels between the western and eastern roots of psychology have been explored. As a forerunner of neuropsychology, developmental psychology, and health psychology more than 2,200 years ago, Yellow Emperor Internal Medicine Volume Su Wen proclaims the correlations of diet and health, neuroskeletal system to physical and mental health, ethic and practitioner, environmental impacts to physical and mental health, also meridian system (經脈) to physical and mental disease. The embracement of the eastern philosophy into the western clinician application was Instantiating through the Fourth wave of psychology together with two different types of contemporary treatments, namely, mindfulness based cognitive therapy and energy psychology.