Fissure: Notes of a Psychological Counselor

Zhou Yuanzhou, male, 47 years old. Practicing in a private psychological counseling clinic for twenty-two years. In his early years, he worked in the psychiatry department of a tertiary hospital, and later turned to consulting. Married, my daughter is in college, and my wife is a high school Chinese teacher. Although he looks gentle and calm on the outside, he is experiencing a slow earthquake in his heart - it is not caused by some sudden event, but the tiny cracks accumulated over twenty years have finally begun to penetrate. His doubt: not doubt about psychology itself, but doubt about the meaning of the act of "diagnosis". He increasingly feels that the DSM-5 (Diagnostic Manual of Mental Disorders) is like an ever-expanding dictionary. Every time an entry is added, there is an additional group of "patients." He began to think about a question: Are we treating people, or are we treating substandard people? This is not a book about "crazy people", it is a book about "seeing". What they see may be true, perhaps false, or both. But they are watching, and we are a seer and a listener. Thank you.