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Xudong Zhu

Xudong Zhu

Shanghai, China · Cultural Psychologist, Industry Mentor for Master of Applied Psychology, East China Normal University

Research Focus: Cultural-Existential Approach to Dreamwork

Personal Information / 个人信息

March 1975,Education & Credential: Master’s Degree in Psychology 心理学硕士

Cultural Psychologist, Industry Mentor for Master of Applied Psychology, East China Normal University, Registered Supervisor of Chinese Psychological Society Registration System (CPS), Master of Shuchen Spiritual Academy 文化心理学家、华东师范大学应用心理学硕士专业学位行业产业导师、中国心理学会注册系统(CPS)注册督导师、淑尘心灵书院院长

Co‑Chair of the INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE OF DREAM AND PSYCHOLOGICAL ANALYSTS / Chair of the Oriental Cultural-Existential Dreamwork Committee国际梦联联合主席 / 东方文化存在取向专委会主委

Main Schools of Thought / Theoretical Orientation / 主要流派 / 理论取向

Cultural-Existential Orientation (Integrating Self Psychology, Humanistic Experiential Therapy and Analytical Psychology) 东方文化存在取向(整合自体、人本体验疗法、分析心理学)

Research Direction / 研究方向

Cultural-Existential Approach to Dreamwork: Integrating analytical psychology, this approach returns dreams to the temporal framework of solar terms, the body, and the spiritual tradition of Taoist inner cultivation. It investigates how dreams facilitate the dreamer’s reconnection with the Dao, and explores indigenous pathways for dream interpretation. 东方文化存在取向释梦(Cultural-Existential Approach to Dreamwork):结合分析心理学,将梦放回节气时空、身体与东方丹道修行的心性传统中,研究梦如何推动梦者与 “道” 重建联结,并形成本土释梦路径探索。

Promoting the construction of indigenous dream interpretation methodology: rooted in the “Three Pillars of Outlook” (Worldview: witnessing the Dao; Values: embracing the Dao; Life Perspective: enacting the Dao) and the “Seven-Step Method” (Seven Orifices of One Breath), it establishes an indigenous Eastern dream interpretation framework independent of Western paradigms. 推动本土释梦方法论建构:以 “三观基石”(世界观见道、价值观纳道、人生观行道)与 “七步法”(一息之七窍)为骨架,建立不依附西方框架的东方释梦路径。

Temporal research on solar terms and dreams: situating dreams within the 24 solar terms and bodily rhythms, exploring the temporality, anticipatory and prospective quality, and recursive spiral of “Return” in dreams, alongside long-term accumulation of solar-term dreamwork. 节气与梦的时间性研究:把梦放回二十四节气与身体节律中,研究梦的时间观、预演性与 “复” 的螺旋,以及节气梦工作的长程积累。

Clinical and supervisory application of the cultural-existential approach: dreamwork in long-term cases, processing of countertransference dreams and vicarious traumatic stress for therapists, dream interpretation supervision and training of dreamworkers (individualized according to somatic disposition, rhythm, style and techniques). 文化存在取向的临床与督导应用:长程个案中的梦工作、咨询师反移情梦与替代性应激创伤的消化、释梦督导与释梦师培育(依体质、节奏、风格技法个别化)。

Cross-cultural dialogue and mutual verification with contemporary dream research (offline exploration hypothesis, hyper-association integration). 跨文化对话,及与当代梦研究(离线探索假说、超联想整合)的互参互证。

Ethical boundaries of dream interpretation: centered on “Knowing the white, guarding the black”, studying the clinical stance of non-intrusion, non-prescriptive answers, and preliminary conclusions, as well as transference ethics in dreamwork within public settings and long-term analysis. 5. 关注释梦的伦理边界:以 “知其白、守其黑” 为核心,研究不穿透、不代答、结论自带初步性的临床姿态,以及公开情境与长程分析中梦工作的移情伦理。

Educational Experience / 学习经历

  1. 2012–2015 Continuous Training in Contemporary Psychoanalytic Self Psychology (3 years) 500 contact hours of clinical professional skills, 84 hours of group supervision (certified by the Clinical Psychology and Counseling Supervision Committee of Shanghai Psychological Society; supervisors: Xu Jun et al., in-person) 1、2012 年 - 2015 年当代精神分析自体心理学 3 年连续培训 (临床方向专业技能 500 学时 团体督导时数 84 小时(学时数经上海心理学会临床心理与心理咨询督导专业委员会认证,导师:徐钧等,地面)
  2. 2013–2024 Continuous Training and Practice in Humanistic Focusing-Oriented Experiential Therapy (10 years); Further training in Humanistic-Existential Psychotherapy at the Sigmund Freud Academy Vienna, Austria in 2025 Dual international certification as Classic Focusing Trainer and Wholebody Focusing Therapist obtained in 2016. Supervisors: Prof. Karen Whalen (Canada), Xu Jun, Li Ming et al. Total training hours plus continuing education exceed 1500 hours, mainly in-person. 2、2013 年 - 2024 人本聚焦体验疗法连续培训及实践 10 年,2025 年在奥地利维也纳弗洛伊德学院 -- 人本存在取向心理治疗进修 (于 2016 年获得经典聚焦师与全身聚焦治疗师双重国际认证资格,导师:Karen Whalen 教授(加拿大)、徐钧、李明等,总训练时数以及后续继续教育超过 1500 学时,地面为主)
  3. 2015–2017 Master-level Clinical Counseling Curriculum at Lehigh University (3 years) Helping skills, symptom-oriented therapy, crisis intervention, etc. 280 contact hours. Supervisor: Prof. Arnold Spokane, Department of Clinical Psychology, Lehigh University, former President of the Society of Counseling Psychology, mainly in-person. 3、2015 年 - 2017 年美国里亥大学临床心理咨询硕士课程 3 年 (助人技巧、症状取向治疗、危机干预等,280 学时,导师:阿诺德・斯波坎,里海大学临床心理系教授,曾任美国咨询心理学学会主席,地面为主)
  4. 2017 Intensive Training in Clinical Analytical Psychology Techniques at the C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco 2 weeks, 108 contact hours, 36 supervision hours. Supervisors: Tom Kirsch, John Beebe and more than ten other analysts, San Francisco, USA. 4、2017 年美国旧金山荣格学院临床分析心理学治疗技术集中受训 (2 周 108 学时、督导时数 36 小时,导师:Tom Kirsch、 John BeeBe 等十余,美国旧金山)
  5. 2018 Transpersonal Psychology and Clinical Psychotherapy Program, California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS) Summer intensive training, 72 contact hours. Faculty: CIIS training team, San Francisco, USA. 5、2018 年美国加州整合学院超个人心理学和临床技能心理治疗项目 (集中夏季训练 72 小时,导师:CIIS 团队,美国旧金山)
  6. Since 2017: Systematic Training as an IAAP Candidate Jungian Analyst (2017–2022: Shanghai Group; from 2023: Wuhan Analytical Psychology Development Group. Receiving clinical analytical therapy training via SAP London. Roughly 200+ hours per year. Serving as Committee Member of the Wuhan Development Group and its Analytical Psychology Association. Personal analysis exceeds 700 hours; supervision and training completed in accordance with candidate analyst progression requirements.) 6、2017 至今 IAAP 候选国际荣格学派分析师系统训练(2017-2022 隶属上海小组,2023 年起在武汉分析心理学发展小组训练,接受伦敦 SAP 荣格学院临床分析性治疗训练,每年约 200 + 学时并担任武汉发展小组及其分析心理学协会的组织委员会委员。累计接受个人分析超 700 小时,督导、培训按候选分析师进阶要求完成。)

Work Experience / 从业经历

Practicing at Shanghai Nanjia Psychological Counseling Co., Ltd. since 2013 2013 起于上海南嘉心理咨询有限公司挂牌执业至今

Specialized further training in clinical psychotherapy at Shanghai Mental Health Center (full-time, Psychosomatic Ward, Inpatient Department, 6 months) in 2016 2016 于上海精卫中心临床心理治疗专项进修(全日制,住院部心身病房, 6 个月)

Concurrent practice sites: Jing Psychological Counseling Center, Shanghai Kangnai Culture Communication Co., Ltd. (2018–present) Shanghai Shuchen Psychological Counseling Center (2022–present) Client population: Adults. Total billed counseling hours: 12,000+. 同时多点执业:上海康耐文化传播有限公司净心理咨询中心(2018 - 至今) 上海淑尘心理咨询中心(2022 - 至今) 服务对象:成人,合计收费咨询小时数 12000+。

Since 2017, Supervisor at the internship base for MAP postgraduate students in Applied Clinical Psychology, East China Normal University (MAP Program Supervisor and Industry Mentor, 2024, 2025, 2026) 2017 - 至今,华东师范大学临床应用心理学 MAP 硕士研究生实习基地担任督导师 (2024、2025、2026MAP 项目督导师兼任行业产业导师)

Major Achievements / 主要成果

  1. Encountering Bion’s “Without Memory, Without Desire” in the Here and Now, 2nd Cultural and Psychology Forum, Yuxi, Yunnan, July 2021, Poster Presentation. 《在原地遇见比昂的 “无欲无忆”》,第二届文化与心理论坛,云南玉溪,202107,墙报发表。
  2. Practice of “Non-Action yet Nothing Left Undone” from the Tao Te Ching and Psychological Counseling, Inaugural Conference of Chinese Traditional Culture Mind-Body Therapy Development Alliance & 2021 First Chinese Traditional Culture Mind-Body Therapy Forum, Anji, Zhejiang, November 2023, Poster & Workshop Presentation. 《道德经 “无为而无不为” 实践与心理咨询》,首届中华传统文化心身治疗发展联盟成立暨 2023 首届中华传统文化心身治疗发展论坛,浙江安吉,202311,墙报交流及工作坊发表。
  3. Eastern Echo of “Libido”: Dialogue between the Tao Te Ching and Psychoanalysis on Sexuality, 2024 Joseph Sandler Psychoanalytic Research Conference, Shanghai, November 2024, Panel Presentation. 《“性欲力” 的东方回声 --《道德经》与精神分析有关 “性” 的对话》,2024 约瑟夫・桑德拉精神分析研究大会,上海,202411,分坛报告分享
  4. Consulting Atmosphere for Cultivating “Taoist Personality Level” through Settling the Mind: A Dao-Centered Clinical Counseling Perspective, 2nd Conference of Chinese Traditional Culture Mind-Body Therapy Development Forum, November 2024, Poster Presentation. 《住心提升 “道家人格水平” 的咨询氛围 -- 试述以 “道” 为中心的临床咨询观》,中华传统文化心身治疗发展论坛第二届大会,202411,墙报发表
  5. Taoist-Psychoanalytic Synthesis: Libido-Psychic Energy Bridge from Regression to Reintegration, Special Report at the 10th World Congress of Psychotherapy (WCP). 《Taoist-Psychoanalytic Synthesis: Libido-Psychic Energy Bridge from Regression to Reintegration(道家与精神分析的整合实践:力比多 - 心理能量从退行到再整合的桥梁)》,第十届世界心理治疗大会 WCP 专项报告
  6. Bridging East and West: Pathways for Rebalancing Psychological Energy from a Taoist-Psychoanalytic Perspective, 3rd Conference of Chinese Traditional Culture Mind-Body Therapy Development Forum, November 2025, Poster Presentation. 《会通东西:道家精神分析视角下的心理能量失衡与重整路径》,中华传统文化心身治疗发展论坛第三届大会,202511,墙报发表
  7. Cultural-Existential Dream Interpretation: Three Foundational Pillars and the Seven-Step Method, 4th Conference of Chinese Traditional Culture Mind-Body Therapy Development Forum, November 2026, accepted as theoretical innovation, Poster Presentation.《东方文化存在取向释梦:三观基石与七步法》,中华传统文化心身治疗发展论坛第四届大会,202611,作为理论创新被接收,墙报发表
  8. Walking Side by Side in the Canyon: An Asian Female Dreamworker’s Decade-Long Jungian Individuation Journey, International Jungian Psychology Symposium 2026 (Asian Women: Jungian Perspectives), December 2026, Panel Presentation, published in Conference Proceedings. 《峡谷中的同行:一位亚洲女性释梦师十年荣格分析的个体化历程》,2026 年荣格心理学国际研讨大会(亚洲女性 - 榮格派观点 Asian Women: Jungian Perspectives),202612,分论坛报告,并入论文集发表
  9. If I Saw the Bear: Cultural-Existential Dream Interpretation from an Eastern Perspective, 《如果我看见了那只熊 - 东方文化存在取向释梦》

Contact Information / 联系方式

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