★ "Where there is illness, there is medicine." A psychological master takes you through the darkest moments of life to rediscover light.
★ The first psychological therapy novel by renowned psychologist and founder of Imagery Dialogue Therapy, Zhu Jianjun. A thrilling and perilous spiritual journey of a terminally ill person fighting for survival—a must-read for anyone seeking healing. Whether physical or mental, external or internal, every moment of desperation has something worth seeing.
★ The dual presentation of the inner world and the real world offers a rare model of psychotherapeutic thinking. Read the story, heal yourself.

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"If simply dying means end-of-life care, then all psychotherapy is end-of-life care. The only difference is whether the client dies in a week or fifty years - it's just a minor variation in timing. The primary goal of psychotherapy isn't to prevent someone from dying forever, but to give them more hope for life."

"This grass may wither every winter, yet it regenerates in spring. Though death is invincible, even death cannot conquer life."

"Perhaps this world has never lacked doubt - it's precisely because we have doubt that we develop conviction. There has never been an absence of hatred - it's because we experience hatred that we come to understand love. There has never been an absence of illness - it's precisely because we face disease that we discover medicine, healing, and rebirth."

When your body or mind is trapped in a predicament or even a dead end, how do you fight back to break through and be reborn?
Chen Shu, an urban white-collar worker diagnosed with cancer and on the brink of death, seeks end-of-life psychological counseling from therapist Haiyin. Guided by Haiyin, Chen Shu delves into her inner world. As events in the real and inner worlds collide, she gradually uncovers the hidden psychological truths behind her emotional entanglements, as well as the "sacrifice," "death," and "father complex" complexes that drain her vitality. It turns out that hate is the deepest form of love, and death is merely a path to life. The girl grows closer to her true self, and her hope for life is rekindled...
Life’s vitality bursts forth between opposites—reality and illusion, truth and falsehood. The core mystery of psychotherapy lies in finding the opposite of every shadow—doubt, weakness, destruction, death—and embracing and reconstructing it with trust, courage, reconciliation, and renewal.
Healed by seeing, mended by love. Where there is illness, there is medicine.

Zhu Jianjun

Zhu Jianjun is a renowned psychologist and one of China’s earliest and most distinguished practitioners in the field of psychotherapy, with over 30 years of dedicated experience in psychological counseling. As the Director of the Imagery Dialogue Therapy Division under the Mental Health Committee of the Chinese Federation of Social Work, Deputy Director of the Ecology and Environmental Psychology Committee at the Chinese Society of Social Psychology, Founder and First Chair of the Psychology Department at Beijing Forestry University, as well as a Professor at the same institution, Zhu has played a pivotal role in advancing psychological research and practice in China.

In the 1990s, he pioneered "Imagery Dialogue Therapy", an indigenous Chinese psychotherapeutic approach, making him the second scholar in China—following Dr. Zhong Youbin (founder of "Cognitive Insight Therapy")—to independently develop an original method of psychological counseling and treatment. To date, Zhu has authored more than 30 books spanning diverse domains, including not only psychotherapy and counseling but also cultural psychology, psychohistory, environmental psychology and criminal psychology. His notable works include "Who Are You, Really?", "Self-Knowledge", "The Medicine Tree", "Dream Interpretation" and "Journey Through the Castle of the Mind".

1. The Wedding in Preparation
2. The First Consultation with Haiyin
3. The Second Consultation
4. The Third Consultation + Wedding Postponement
5. Chen Shu’s Uneducated Younger Brother
6. The Fourth Consultation
7. Preparing for the Wedding Again
8. The Sea Cucumber in the Imagery World
9. Mom and Brother
10. The Mermaid’s Fate
11. Can Internal Organs Regenerate?
12. The God of Death
13. The Pessimistic Subpersonality
14. Family Legacy
15. Childhood Sexual Abuse
16. The Lesion Is Shrinking
17. Refusing Chemotherapy
18. New Roommates Arrive + Finding a Place
19. The "Dare to Live" Team?
20. Perseverance
21. Loving in a Different Way?
22. Regeneration and Withdrawal
23. The Python’s Attack
24. Xiao Dai’s Internal Organs
25. The Benefits of Illness
26. Xiao Dai’s Hair
27. The Apricot Blossoms in the Courtyard
28. The Strange Allergy
29. Bidding Farewell to Xiao Dai + Ending Counseling
30. Being Together
31. Smooth Flow
32. Crying
33. Peaceful and Quiet?
34. Seeing the World
35. Forty Years Later
36. Cancer Recurrence
37. Starting Over
38. Your Name Is "Chen Shu"
39. Tomorrow