仪式与心理治疗（Ritual and psychotherapy）.docVIP

仪式与心理治疗（Ritual and psychotherapy） Refers to the religious ritual and liturgy, early anthropology refers to the ceremony with religious beliefs. There are many ways of human behavior. What kind of behavior can be called ceremony? Since the scope of ritual activities is not only complex but also broad, there are many inconsistencies in how to define rituals. In the 1910 edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica, the modern definition of the ceremony came into being. It synthesizes the views of many scholars, such as Taylor, and Fraser. Assad (Asad) held that ritual was regarded as a type of normative behavior, which symbolized or represented something, and thus formed a different connection with individual consciousness and social organization, [2] (P178). In English, there are two words to describe the ceremony. One is ritual, and the other is rite. Ritual has a sacred or religious connotation, and rite has a secular meaning. In psychotherapy, rituals use the sacred and secular connotations inevitably because of the visitors unique circumstances. Denzin in the definition of ceremony to focus more on the sacred connotation: a common traditional celebration, involving two or more people, given a special emotion and sacred meaning, focusing on a clear definition of the social object, and performing participants were given a special feeling of divine and unusual [3]. Rando provides a more secular description of Ritual: it is a particular act or activity in which a performer or group expresses certain feelings and thoughts in a symbolic way. It can be a habitual, repetitive act, or a behavior that happens only once, [4]. In Chinese, instrument has the meaning of testimonies, norms and etiquette. In the dictionary of modern Chinese, the ceremony is defined as the procedure and form of etiquette. Ancient Chinese Dictionary in the ceremony with legal norms, rules of etiquette mean [5] (. The domestic scholars on the definition of ceremony and summarized theories of w