Chapter 2 2. The Dream of the White Fox

As agreed, we met Dr. Cong Changmin in a coffee shop three days later. The cafe is located on a quiet old French street, and the dense green trees on both sides block the noise of the city, and the buildings on the street are not tall, but they are quite distinctive.Their beauty, like the spring sun, soothes people's hearts, awakens people's desires, and gives people a kind of affectionate and elusive promise. Dr. Cong Changmin greeted me warmly when he saw us. His mood didn’t seem to be affected by the dispute caused by the article “Research on the Personality Projection Test of Painting” during that meeting. He seemed to have already Forget about it all.

"You are Dr. Sheng Ming, hello. It's a pleasure to meet you." And my unhappiness towards him has long been released, I just feel that when he holds my hand, it is not very strong, but there is a gravitational force like a magnet, if you are not careful, you will stumble. "I've known you for a long time. The first time I was born, the second time I've known each other. We don't know each other anymore." I lowered my head and observed his hand. The joints and muscles are not thick, but it looks a bit like a woman's hand, plump and slender. "You seem to have kung fu in your hands, very magnetic. I heard from Dr. Fang Xian that you practice a strange boxing technique every morning?"

"Oh, that's not a strange boxing technique," Cong Changmin laughed, and said, "It's just a fitness and self-defense technique I created by combining Japanese judo with Chinese Taijiquan and push hands. You Thinking about it, a psychiatrist often has to work in a very busy and cool environment, how to maintain his own physical and mental health has become a big problem. Besides, there are all kinds of psychiatrists, especially all kinds of sudden Events will be impossible to prevent, if a psychologist can master a technique of fitness and self-defense, there will be a lot of benefits and no disadvantages."

"Ah, I really admire you, no wonder you always look so energetic." Then I suddenly realized, and then asked him: "I heard that you have very unique insights and research on dream analysis, This time I came here specially to ask you to teach me a thing or two." Speaking of this, Cong Changmin became enthusiastic, and there was a well-known sense of self-esteem in this enthusiasm. He said: "Man, since primitive society, is a diurnal animal, moving with the time of the sun. For activities and survival, sleep is needed at night to ensure safety and recover from fatigue. However, in modern society, people can move around at a constant temperature in cities that never sleep or in high-rise buildings, regardless of spring, summer, autumn and winter. Therefore, concerns about safety and energy The need for sleep to restore fatigue gradually disappears. Even in order to survive, many people think that it is more beneficial to work and live without sleeping at night. However, after millions of years of human evolution, the essence of being a diurnal animal is not No change. As a result, many people, especially in economically developed countries and regions, suffer from more and more sleep disorders.”

He talked a lot in one breath, and then stopped to drink the coffee on the table. Seeing that we were all paying attention to what he said, he said calmly again: "Dreams actually function as another kind of sleep. In technical terms It is said that dreams play a filling role when people are asleep and their consciousness is in a blank or thin state, in other words, it has the function of balancing the physical and mental functions." "That's why dream counseling is becoming more and more important in modern society," I agreed. "Indeed. In his preface to the first edition, Freud pointed out clearly that dreams are a way for many psychological phenomena to manifest. They are of great value in clinical psychotherapy and are valued by many doctors. No matter who If he cannot interpret the meaning of dreams, then he cannot understand the pathological phenomena of neuroses, obsessive-compulsive disorders, phobias or delusions, and cannot use them to bring any therapeutic influence to the patient."

I said: "This is indeed a mysterious and important psychoanalytic technique. But it is very difficult to grasp the main points of this technique." He explained: "Generally speaking, special attention must be paid to the first dream after the start of psychotherapy, the same type of dreams that the client recurs, and the vivid nightmares. In addition, in order to reduce the client's suspicion Dream recall and resistance during dream analysis can also be used to apply shallow hypnotic techniques to the parties before the psychoanalysis of dreams." "Ah, speaking of hypnosis, I remembered something," I couldn't help asking him curiously, "I heard that you sometimes hypnotized a cat?"

He laughed loudly and said: "Hypnotism originally came from the theory of 'animal magnetism', and its use in clinical treatment began in Paris, France in 1778. I did this to test whether this theory is scientific or not." .If 'animal magnetism' exists, we should be able to hypnotize not only a cat, but a bee, a beetle, or a cockroach." "It's unbelievable!" Fang Xian and I said with wide-eyed surprise. "However, in 1842, the 'animal magnetism theory' was denied by the psychologist Pareto, who proposed that hypnosis is a kind of 'psychological suggestion theory'. Around 1890, the famous French psychiatrist Charcot and others believed that , hysterical patients are most likely to be hypnotized. In the First World War in 1914, Harto Felto and Wolbach jointly began to apply hypnosis to the psychological analysis of war neurotic patients."

When I heard Dr. Cong Changmin report the names of foreigners and the historical time, I asked him with a smile: "Your memory is really admirable. I heard that you can remember materials such as telephone directories and dictionaries. , just like the autistic person in the movie "Rain Man", who has extraordinary secret memory ability?" Cong Changmin winked his eyes playfully, and said: "It's nothing, anyone can master the know-how and technique of this kind of memory as long as they go through a certain amount of training. The question is how long he can persevere in determination and time. I Practicing mnemonics is driven by psychotherapy. You think, in a case consultation, the psychiatrist sits opposite the psychiatrist with a pen and a notebook and records what he has said. The psychiatrist will feel nervous and emotionally uncomfortable. Comfort or resistance, like a court interrogation of a prisoner. If you are good at using mnemonics, of course this embarrassing situation will not exist."

"You are so different!" I was so impressed, and then remembered the theme of my special trip to meet him today, so I winked at my friend Fang Xian. So Fang Xian made it clear that I wanted to hire him to work in the Psychology Clinic of Renxin Hospital.Fang Xian is eloquent and has great lobbying skills. I think he can be an outstanding politician without doing neuropsychological research. Cong Changmin showed embarrassment at the beginning. He said that he had always wanted to open a personal psychological clinic, but the plan was temporarily shelved due to funding and venue problems, and he is still planning.However, he said that today he and I talked very speculatively, as if we hit it off by fate.If he refuses, he will lose the face of the two friends.He asked if he could come to Renxin Hospital as a part-time psychologist first?However, the condition is to configure a dedicated psychotherapy room for him.

This is asking too much!In the psychological clinic of Renxin Hospital, even full-time psychologists do not have a dedicated treatment room, let alone part-time psychologists.However, I changed my mind: This is a "weird man", and a "wizard" is rare!It's better to cooperate for a while to see, and then break up if it doesn't work.So I gritted my teeth and said that I would go to the hospital to discuss it and try my best to meet his requirements.Cong Changmin seemed very happy, and said that he wanted to visit the psychological clinic on the first day of next week.

Before we broke up, I suddenly remembered a case and said to Cong Changmin: "You just mentioned the analysis and treatment of dreams. Recently, our psychological clinic encountered a difficult and miscellaneous disease. The client was a young woman. She said that she had a lot of problems. A white fox appeared in every dream. She didn't know what it meant, and she was very disturbed emotionally, so she came to ask for psychological counseling and analysis." "A white fox? A very rare symbol." He became engrossed, looking like a police dog with its ears pricked up. "I found several consultants to analyze and explain to her, but she was not satisfied. She even got into trouble with the psychiatrist. She is sensitive, picky and easily hurt like a neurotic patient, and now no psychiatrist dares to accept her. In this case, I did a psychological analysis for her. But she still calls every now and then to ask if she has made an appointment with a suitable psychological counselor?" "Is her life experience clear?" Cong Changmin asked again. "Her life experience is very complicated, and she has experienced ups and downs. Even she can't explain it clearly, or she doesn't want to talk about it in detail. It is said that she has worked as a babysitter, masseuse, etc., and now she has no proper occupation." "Then how are her treatment expenses settled?" "I haven't seen her worry about the cost of treatment," I narrated a little puzzled. "It is said that she is a mistress for someone, and someone is raising her, and this person is very powerful." "Have you ever taken a personality test?" Cong Changmin's eyes became bright, this case aroused his strong interest, and he asked again professionally. "As a result of the psychological test, it was found that she had no personality disorder or psychopathological tendencies. However, she had poor social adjustment and showed serious psychological trauma." I further explained. "Repeated dreams,...maladaptation...white fox..." Cong Changmin muttered to himself, as if stuck in some difficult problem, but couldn't find the answer for a while, he said: "From Jung's dream analysis theory From this point of view, dreams are actually the language of the client’s soul. The core of this case may be the white fox. What does it symbolize? What is its prototype? What kind of “unconscious collection” does it represent? Decipher these languages, and the case will be solved." I have read some books on Jung's psychology, but I feel that the concepts Dr. Cong Changmin mentioned are too profound and I can't figure it out.I don't like mysterious things, but pay attention to straightforward, concise and clear.I asked him, "Have you gained any new insight into this case?" Cong Changmin frowned, his eyes narrowed into a line again, as if he was focusing on a certain target again, his eyes seemed to see through the tip of an iceberg revealed in the gray fog.He said: "Before meeting the person involved in the case, any opinion is unreliable. However, I personally think that to analyze this woman's white fox dream, four factors should be paid attention to: one is the activity of the dream 'How; the second is the 'personality image' embodied in the dream; the third is the 'surrounding situation' when the dream occurred; the fourth is the 'emotion' embodied in the content of the dream. I think, if Director Sheng Ming does not object, this case You can leave it to me for consultation.” "It would be the best if you can do it yourself." I said happily; "I'll call the lady on duty at the clinic immediately and ask her to make an appointment with the client for consultation."