It is a pleasure to write a foreword for Liu Ming’s new work on psychological counseling. Liu Ming is the able, thoughtful and kind owner of Dong Ming Successful Life Counseling Center, in Beijing. His desire to record the Dong Ming approach and to make it widely available in print clearly shows his commitment to the enterprise.
Liu Ming’s book appears at a time when so many people in China are experiencing major life stresses. Economic changes, relocations, job stresses, marital stresses, all increase. The incidence of anxiety, depression and other symptoms concomitantly increases. The need for competent low cost counseling will undoubtedly rise. The processes in this book may be of significant usefulness.
Although the book uses some commonly found and widely accepted concepts such as role taking and changing illogical beliefs, it combines these with some older and rather rarely found ideas such as regressing the client. Philosophical thought to build up a psychological model through psychological counseling is thus no mere summary of western approaches, but a uniquely Chinese approach synthesized by active counselor.
I wish Liu Ming and the entire Dong Ming Successful Life Counseling Center much success as they gather data to their unique approach in modern China.