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The Garden of the Heart and Soul: the image, the way, and the meaning
Author(s) -
Baohong Cao,
Lan Gao,
Ziying Jia,
Bo Wu
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
journal of analytical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.285
H-Index - 23
eISSN - 1468-5922
pISSN - 0021-8774
DOI - 10.1111/1468-5922.12466
Subject(s) - psyche , individuation , soul , meaning (existential) , mainland china , set (abstract data type) , psychology , psychoanalysis , china , epistemology , psychotherapist , history , philosophy , archaeology , computer science , programming language
This paper begins with an explanation of the four Chinese characters that represent the project of the Garden of the Heart and Soul. This project was founded to help the psychological development of orphans, as well as to provide psychological relief for the victims of ecological disasters such as earthquakes through the use of Jungian psychology, sandplay therapy, and the psychology of the Heart. Eleven years after its founding, there are 83 work‐stations on mainland China. The authors discuss how the Chinese characters influenced the way they set up their project and the values that guide them. In addition to helping the individuation of the people they work with, their work provides a container for the collective psyche and a connection with the cultural archetypal roots.