Traditional Culture and Psychological Education

While traditional Chinese culture does not directly refer to "mental health," it does characterize the mentally healthy in terms of "human beings" and how to behave, as well as in its discussion of the rational personality. A representative example is the Confucian standard of mental health:

●Having good interpersonal relationships

●Appropriately restraining one's behavior

●Maintaining emotional balance and stability

●Correctly recognizing one's surroundings

●Maintaining a positive attitude toward life

●Improving the developmental goals of one's own self

This standard elevates the connotation of mental health to the height of human-society and human-nature relations. Embodied in the relationship between man and society, it is the harmony and unity of man and society; embodied in the relationship between man and nature, it is the unity of humanism and heaven.