心理健康与文化:一个研究视角的转换

Mental Health and Culture: A Transformation of Research Perspective

作为一个拥有几千年中华文化传统,而今被卷入全球化与现代性转型之中的国家,独特的社会历史文化脉络“形塑”出具有“文化特异性”的心理健康议题,更需要立基于文化视角的解读。国外跨文化取向的心理健康研究启发出我国心理健康研究的“文化意识”,而华人心理学界基于“文化主体性”探寻而采取的一系列研究行动则有力地推动了以“生活现象”为本的心理健康知识体系和以“地域文化”为架构的心理健康理论体系的构建。在相当长时间内,研究和认识心理健康相关议题在本土文化中的属性与特征,发现和揭示本土文化与心理健康问题成因之间的关系,探索文化因素与心理健康促进及心理疾病的预防、治疗和康复方式的相互建构过程及特性应当成为我国心理健康研究的主要目标。本辑共刊发11篇论文,其中既有从文化共量性角度对本土概念的探索、对影响心理健康状况的文化因素的研究,也有针对社会互动脉络中“生命经验”的深描,还有对文化因素与心理干预之间相互建构的尝试性探讨,展示了基于文化视角的心理健康研究的最新成果。

As a country having several thousand years’ Chinese culture tradition,and having been involved in globalization and modernity transition,China’s unique social,historical and cultural context shaped the mental health issues with"cultural specificity",which need to be interpreted based on the cultural perspective. Foreign mental health research based on cross-cultural orientation inspired the cultural consciousness of mental health research in our country,and the series of research actions of Chinese psychology based on cultural subjectivity exploration vigorously promoted the construction of mental health knowledge based on life phenomenon and the theoretical system of mental health based on the regional culture. For quite a long time,it will be the main goal of the mental health research in China that researching and understanding the properties and characteristics of mental health issues related to local culture,finding and revealing the relationship between native culture and the reason of mental health issues,exploring the construction process and characteristics of cultural factors and psychological health promotion,prevention,treatment and rehabilitation of mental illness. In this special issue, authors of 11 articles provided the deep and insightful analysis of core concepts, the cultural factors influencing the mental health status,the description of the "the life experience"in the social interaction,and the mutual construction of the cultural factors and the psychological intervention. This issue presents the latest research results based on the cultural perspectives,and puts forward the outlook for the future exploration of the mental health knowledge system based on the life phenomenon.