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Chapter 335 - 333 Nan Zhubin: Everyone Is a Potential Pervert

Chapter 335: Chapter 333 Nan Zhubin: Everyone Is a Potential Pervert

Nan Zhubin reflects.

When self-identifying as a "consultant," Teacher Xiao Zhao was dedicated to doing "good consultations" for every student; but felt self-blame due to inadequate energy to help all students in need of consultation.

Now, with her self-identification shifted to "psychology teacher," she seems to be obsessed with providing meticulous "guidance" to students.

The shift happened a bit too quickly.

Jumping from one extreme to another, this situation often occurs in psychological consultation.

That’s also why psychological consultations usually happen in stages, progressing step-by-step.

Otherwise, without careful control of the intervention process or medication dosage, it might lead to situations like depression turning into bipolar disorder...

Excess is just as bad as inadequacy.

Luckily, Teacher Xiao Zhao’s issues aren’t as severe as those mentioned above. Although her own professional quality is weak, it’s still... adequate.

Just need to adjust some cognition slightly.

...

Nan Zhubin organized his words in his mind.

"It looks like since our last conversation, Teacher Xiao Zhao, you’ve indeed reflected on your professional identity."

As usual, start with a wave of Support and Positive Attention.

For Nan Zhubin, this is almost habitual. Not only in consultations, these techniques often help in daily social interactions as well.

Teacher Xiao Zhao nodded instinctively: "Yes, I searched for books related to the Existentialism school last night, and gained a lot..."

But what Nan Zhubin was going to say next wasn’t content found in books or textbooks.

"Teacher Xiao Zhao, do you remember how to assess whether a person is psychologically healthy in psychological consultation?"

Teacher Xiao Zhao was taken aback.

This is a question without a unified answer.

However, academia and clinical practice have summarized a set of widely recognized core standards.

Teacher Xiao Zhao wasn’t capable of reciting them word by word, but she tried her best to combine her understanding to recite.

"Uh... normal cognitive function, good emotional regulation, sound social function, intact personality structure, achieving self-realization... and, and perhaps something related to cultural harmony?"

Sufficient.

Nan Zhubin smiled slightly: "That’s about right, these can basically cover the standards of so-called ’psychologically healthy person’."

"Then, Teacher Xiao Zhao, how many people do you think meet these standards?"

Another sentence plunges a person into silence.

When the brain receives the question, logical thinking begins to run, attempting to deconstruct past experiences to find an answer.

But right now, Teacher Xiao Zhao’s brain seemed to be stuck.

"Okay, let me rephrase— Teacher Xiao Zhao, do you think you are a ’psychologically healthy person’?"

Teacher Xiao Zhao opened her mouth to answer, but got stuck again.

Is she?

She really isn’t.

Not to mention, the point of ’achieving self-realization’ alone is enough to stump Teacher Xiao Zhao.

Watching Teacher Xiao Zhao blink continuously, Nan Zhubin spread his palms upward, making a "you see" gesture.

"Completely ’healthy people’ in the psychological sense are few, it might even be said that they exist only in definition."

"To achieve such ’health,’ the conditions required are numerous: the ability to solve problems, make decisions and plans, matching age and education level; being able to experience diverse emotions without getting trapped in extreme emotions for long; being able to establish intimate relationships freely and empathizing with others controllably; having clear life meaning or pursuits, and being able to reflect from experiences, adapting to environmental changes; not only focusing on oneself but also integrating well into their cultural context, and..."

Nan Zhubin detailed the points Teacher Xiao Zhao just mentioned.

"Achieving these requires high demands on the individual’s psychological resilience and qualities, demanding much from the individual’s family, education, social environment..."

"And even some mystical luck to control a person’s destiny, to prevent unexpected occurrences."

Watching Teacher Xiao Zhao’s brain starting to smoke.

After piercing her bewildered with the truth’s sharp blade, Nan Zhubin comforted her.

"Actually, it’s not just you."

He switched the direction of his right hand, making a "suopabaijita" gesture, pointing to himself: "Even I can’t achieve full ’psychological health’ in a psychological sense."

"I’m telling you this to circle back to the topic just discussed— you mentioned wanting Li Mingchen to ’recover,’ but to what degree counts as ’recovery’?"

"Returning to his pre-anorexia and anxiety state? But was he ’psychologically healthy’ at that time? If not, are you going to endlessly continue to pay attention, intervene?"

Teacher Xiao Zhao lowered her head, expression inexplicable.

Of course, this "inexplicable" is for others, with Nan Zhubin’s interpretative ability, Teacher Xiao Zhao was essentially writing her inner thoughts on her face.

Nan Zhubin pointed it out directly: "You still care about ’anorexia’ and ’anxiety,’ right? Thinking that no matter how mild these are ultimately problems?"

Teacher Xiao Zhao did not find it surprising that Nan Zhubin could see through her inner self.

She nodded in response: "Yes."

Nan Zhubin organized his words, suddenly thinking of an interesting saying.

"Did you study Abnormal Psychology in undergraduate?"

The female teacher shook her head.

The Abnormal Psychology course mainly studies the causes, symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of psychological disorders and even congenital personality disorders, a core course, the depth surpassing general psychological consultation, involving clinical medicine and psychiatry levels.

The well-known Hannibal example in Abnormal Psychology is a classic case.

Therefore, for undergraduate psychology students, Abnormal Psychology is an advanced course, even if it appears, it’s just an elective course, not having taken it is considered normal.

"In Abnormal Psychology, the definition of ’abnormality’ is simply ’deviation from the norm’."

Nan Zhubin established a tone first, then his smile gradually turned teasing.

"And the so-called ’norms,’ can actually be crudely understood as ’psychologically healthy people’."

"So..."

Nan Zhubin spread his hands again, shrugged.

"According to the definition of Abnormal Psychology, each of us, without exception, is ’abnormal,’ at least a ’potential abnormality,’ and ’an abnormality sooner or later’."

"Understanding it this way, isn’t it easier to accept Li Mingchen’s later anorexia and anxiety as not interfering with normal life?"

"Moreover..." Nan Zhubin looked at Teacher Xiao Zhao, comforting, "What I’m telling you is the ’worst’ scenario."

"If things go smoothly and optimistically, Li Mingchen might even come closer to the definition of ’psychologically healthy person’ than you."