Imagery Communication Psychotherapy Assisted Diagnosis of Viscera in Traditional Chinese Medicine: Characteristics of Image in Patients With Stomach Diseases
Traditional Chinese medicine syndrome differentiation is guided by image thinking. Based on
the four diagnoses and viscera images, through the external representation reflected by the pathological
viscera, to identify the location and nature of the viscera. Imagery communication psychotherapy is a
technique for working on images and their symbols. Under the guidance of its observation method, it
can lead patients to obtain visceral images of individual internal experience. Taking the stomach as an
example, Imagery communication psychotherapy is used to guide the image of the stomach, and the
content analysis method is used to obtain the image characteristics of stomach disease and a feature of
stomach disease syndrome type through image analysis, so as to provide a basis for assisting the diagnosis
of viscera in traditional Chinese Medicine.