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This study attempts to illustrate the process of reconstructing adaptive self-identity by tracking the development of imagery in Mr. Z's dreams and sandtrays.The authors adopted amplification and Narrative Identity Process Analysis methods, and developed an Imagery NPCS tool to analyze the farming images in therapy sessions.It provided insights into Chinese culture from an applied, non-Western lens on identity theory. The subject of the study was a Chinese man who had lost his social identity due to stressful events, the results of which were reflected in the interplay between his personal narrative related to farming images and their cultural narrative framework.The authors propose a practical mode of developing narrative identity based on the dynamic organizing principle of opposites which are united in a persona-shadow personality system. Development of an integrated narrative identity can be facilitated by the dialectic between the cultural narrative offered by the psychotherapist and the client's personal narrative.

Huan Guo,1,2 Yancui Zhang,3 Zhendong Wang,4 Heyong Shen2 1School of Human Resources, Guangdong University of Finance & Economics, Guangzhou, People’s Republic of China; 2Institute of Analytical Psychology, City University of Macau, Macau, People’s Republic of China; 3Postdoctoral Research Center of School of Psychology, Nanjing Normal University, Nanjing, People’s Republic of China; 4School of Basic Medical Sciences, Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai, People’s Republic of ChinaCorrespondence: Heyong Shen, Email shenheyong2018@hotmail.comObjective: This study aimed to examine the relationship between cognitive function and depressive symptoms and to explore the mediating role of sleep quality in the cognition-depression relationship in Chinese older adults (OAs).Methods: Data came from a nationally representative sample of 16,209 Chinese OAs (aged 65+) from 2008, 2011, 2014, and 2018 waves of the Chinese Longitudinal Healthy Longevity Survey (CLHLS). A random intercept cross-lagged panel model (RI-CLPM) combined with mediation analysis was adopted to determine the relationship between cognitive function and depressive symptoms and the mediating effect of sleep quality on the ascertained cognition–depression relationship.Results: Poorer cognitive function at prior assessment points were significantly associated with severe depressive symptoms at subsequent assessments, and vice versa. Sleep quality partially mediated the prospective relationship of cognition on depressive symptoms, which accounted for 3.92% of the total effect of cognition on depression.Discussion: Cognitive decline may predict subsequent depressive symptoms, and vice versa. The impact of cognition on depression is partially explained by its influence on sleep quality. Multidisciplinary interventions aimed at reducing depression and cognitive decline per se as well as improving sleep quality would be beneficial for emotional well-being and cognitive health in OAs.Keywords: cognitive function, depressive symptoms, sleep quality, random intercept cross-lagged panel model, mediation, Chinese older adults

Li (礼) in Chinese culture is an integrated concept of mind and body. Based on C. G. Jung’s idea of mind-body unity, post-Jungians’ archetypal image schema and Chinese self-cultivation view, the study attempts to construct an archetypal mind-body mutual shaping development model in the hope of providing wisdom and theoretical support for the dynamic mind-body cultivation process through Li and its significance for psychological healing, so as to make Li more contemporary and inherited.

After the sudden outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in China in 2020, the viral disease broke out in most countries around the world, becoming a worldwide health emergency. Throughout the pandemic, people have been compelled to simultaneously grapple with its external challenges as well as the psycho-spiritual consequences. This article focuses on a folk image “Sea-Stabilizing Secret Weapon1” and its clinical application to the frontline workers during the pandemic from Jungian perspective. “Sea-Stabilizing Secret Weapon” is a magical weapon used by the character Monkey King who wields it to subdue demons in his quest to retrieve and protect sacred Buddhist scriptures in the Chinese mythological novel Journey to the West. In this article, we analyze the psychological significance of the image of Sea-Stabilizing Secret Weapon as a psychic portal through which to bring contents of the unconscious into consciousness, and a medium to achieve balance between the I (consciousness) and the psychic world within (the unconscious). We posit that the Sea-Stabilizing Secret Weapon corresponds with Edinger’s ego-Self axis and can be used to unveil the unconscious. The process through which this magical weapon is discovered and used by Monkey King is analogous to the dynamic linking of the ego (the center of consciousness) to the Self (the center of the psyche). Two cases during the pandemic are used to illustrate the application of the image as a therapeutic intervention with the frontline medical staff at the individual and group levels.