Who would study psychology unless they had some issues?!-Chapter 431 - 424: The Answer Hidden Behind the "Question

Bai Qinghua neither nodded nor shook his head, leaving Nan Zhubin’s statement unacknowledged, and only continued to ask, "How exactly do you apply [Confrontation]? What is your basis for adopting this consultation style?"

The question carried a hint of examination.

In Jiangdu, Bai Qinghua only saw Nan Zhubin’s [Micro-expression Analysis] capability.

It was that fleeting glimpse that triggered his impulse to take Nan Zhubin in;

During their subsequent interactions, after learning about Nan Zhubin’s professional ethics, Bai Qinghua solidified this impulse into action.

However, regarding Nan Zhubin’s psychological consultation strengths, Bai Qinghua was not particularly informed.

Currently, it was Bai Qinghua’s first time supervising Nan Zhubin during a consultation.

Even though Weng Pinting relayed quite a bit of Nan Zhubin’s past work experience, information can lose accuracy when passed along.

This time, Bai Qinghua wanted to personally hear Nan Zhubin’s report on the consultation.

Shi Qianqian, listening nearby, couldn’t help but suppress her emotions, and asked Chonghui, "What school is our junior brother from?"

"[Cognitive-behavioral], with a bit of [Humanism]." Chonghui replied.

"But why does it sound like [Psychoanalysis] to me?"

"... I’m curious, too."

Chonghui also displayed a curious gaze.

He was the one most familiar with Nan Zhubin among everyone present.

Therefore, Chonghui knew that Nan Zhubin came from the [Cognitive-behavioral Sect]; and in Nan Zhubin’s usual approach to visitors, there was a strong [Humanistic Sect] influence.

But currently, the attitude Nan Zhubin exhibited in this consultation was filled with the flavor of the [Psychoanalytic School].

In today’s standard psychological consultation process, although there are guidelines like "visitor-centered," these concepts were extracted bit by bit from the [Humanism School]’s "human-centered" philosophy over the course of its development.

In fact, before the [Humanism School] appeared, psychological consultation already existed for almost a century.

Psychological consultation at that time was entirely different from today’s model.

The [Psychoanalytic School] founded by Freud was the earliest systematic psychological consultation sect.

This school was characterized by the study of human subconsciousness, and initially, it was not used in "psychological consultation" but rather in "psychotherapy."

The initial intervention targets of this school were—psychiatric patients.

Thus, a significant amount of [Confrontation] was involved during the intervention process, and the form was much more aggressive and sometimes even blunt compared to current consultations.

Although the [Psychoanalytic School], over later developments to fit the environment of psychological consultations, adjusted and extended into [Psychodynamic School] which emphasizes more on [Empathy] and [Support].

But its essence remained unchanged.

...

Chonghui was particularly curious about the reason Nan Zhubin adopted this style for visitor interventions.

Nan Zhubin recalled, "Before understanding the visitor’s issues, I already started trying to analyze the visitor’s personality traits."

"Initially, the visitor, because the consultant stood him up, despite the ’compensation plan’ the teacher left behind and continuous apologies from the staff, stayed in the company and argued with the staff, insisting on having the consultation today, almost sparking a more intense conflict."

"Such behavior can actually be seen as a form of ’client’ who won’t let go once they are in the right, or as a ’repressor’ using pretexts to vent their negative emotions."

"But I have a more optimistic guess—"

Nan Zhubin softly said, "Is it possible that the visitor’s urgency for consultation has reached such a degree that he ’cannot wait even a moment, needing the consultation immediately’?"

Bai Qinghua nodded slightly; this thought was indeed optimistic, but also very risky.

Shi Qianqian and Chonghui also nodded internally, acknowledging that Nan Zhubin’s logic was sound, though few would dare to validate such a guess.

If wrong, it might lead to a consultation accident.

"With this guess in mind, I observed the visitor."

"When he first entered the consultation room, he did not sit down but instead stood alone by the window—I could perceive this as a form of [self-centeredness] and [low regard for rules], as the visitor ignored my consultation room’s rules and tried to challenge my consultation authority to gain initiative."

"But at the same time, this could also be a form of [maintaining distance] and [defensive independence]!"

As soon as Nan Zhubin brought up these two terms.

Both Chonghui and Shi Qianqian, with their solid theoretical foundations, fell into deep thought as they followed Nan Zhubin’s logic, seemingly guessing some of Nan Zhubin’s subsequent deductions.

"This hypothesis was later verified."

Nan Zhubin said slowly, "Although the visitor wore a mask, I could tell a lot from his upper facial [micro expressions]."

"While I was speaking, his gaze kept shifting between the window and me, showing ’slight pupil tremor,’ ’inward twisting of the eyebrow corners,’ and ’slight upward push of the lower eyelids’; this shows a suppressed craving for sadness."

"When I confronted him, attempting to vie for dominance, his ’lower eyelids tightened’ and ’upper eyelids pressed down’; these are signs of a threat-induced anger alertness to his autonomy."

"When I finally persuaded him to sit on the sofa, his pupils instantly dilated to a peak, with ’jaw oscillation’ and ’deepen of the hollow above the collarbone’, reflecting an emotional conflict between pleasure and fear..."

Nan Zhubin itemized these examples like naming his treasures.

...

Wait a minute... wait...

Shi Qianqian stopped thinking.

She had been able to more or less follow the hypotheses and validations, but now she couldn’t keep up with what her junior brother was saying.

What pupil changes? What inward eyebrow corners? What upper and lower eyelids? And then jaw, collarbone?

While being part of Bai Qinghua’s research group, Shi Qianqian understood what these could signify.

But she couldn’t understand how all this could be observed?

Did he carry a camera into the consultation room, freeze time, and slow-motion playback to capture the visitor’s psychological changes?

Her research-oriented mind awakened, no handsome face or charming temperament could stop Shi Qianqian from questioning.

But—

She instinctively glanced at her senior brother and teacher, only to find them fully engrossed, occasionally nodding, and showing expressions akin to "Oh, I get it now."

A sense of discrepancy akin to being the only one in class unable to keep up with the lecture while everyone else does, overwhelmed her.

[Could it be... am I lagging behind?]

Nan Zhubin was unaware of his senior sister’s inner turmoil during their first meeting.

Following his analysis, he provided a conclusion.

"The visitor’s behavior before and at the beginning of the consultation was indeed troubling, yet behind these actions lay a crucial personality psychological trait I recognized."

"Namely—[Avoidant attachment personality]!"

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