Lee, Sang Bok. "The Psychology of Tao from Clinical Neuroscience and Multicultural Psychology Perspectives: An Exploration of Ecological Order and Cosmos."  TPacific Science Review 5 (2005): 230-236.

Abstract

After reviewing the literature of Taoism, author presented four hermeneutic approaches of schemes: (1) a holistic approach, (2) a mind-body communication approach, (3) a multicultural model, and (4) an approach of the limbic system (a model of homeostasis). Four approaches are delineated as some integrated models of the psychology of Tao. A mind-body communication approach shows a new paradigm of healing process, including synchronistic, mystical and paradoxical events of healing. A holistic approach discusses central metaphors such as Yin-Yang, polarity and chaos in terms of nonlinear and cyclical process of ecology. In a multicultural approach, the author adopts Taoist's universal ecological principles of harmony and order. In an approach of the limbic system, the function of the limbic system is analogically compared with that of the Tao, which is grounded in the concepts of integration, harmony or homeostasis. The concepts of trauma and spiritual journey were discussed in the terms of clinical implications.