On February 18th, 2009, Dr. Hermann. Schultz admiringly visited Zhouyi Center and had a discussion concerning some Yi -ology issues with Prof. Liu Dajun and other professors at Zhouyi Center.
Dr. Schultz, born in Bernburg/Germany, studied medicine in Munich, Freiburg, Vienna, and got a medical doctor degree in 1969. Dr. Schultz supervised adult and child psychotherapy and psychoanalysis and acted as a trainer in clinical psychotherapy and psychosomatic medicine for psychologists and medical doctors.
From April 2005 on, Dr. Schultz lectured, supervised psychotherapy training candidates first at Anding Hospital, Beijing. From April 2006 to June 2008 gave Chinese-Norway training course in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy and supervised in Beijing. Nov.2005, Oct.2006, and from May 2008 he started working as a teacher in the SMHC training course in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy, Shanghai. Since October 2007, Dr. Schultz has been working at Wuhan Training Course in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy.
Dr. Schultz developed his interest for Chinese culture during school time by reading Laozi , Kongzi , and the Zhouyi . Therefore in 1963-64 he studied classical Chinese for two years simultaneously with medical studies in Freiburg, Germany. 40 years later, after retirement from hospital work, Dr. Schultz resumed his Chinese studies at Frankfurt University, Sinological Department. During these years, he presented papers about Daoism, Han Feizi and Legalism, Ancient Chinese Mathematics and Astronomy etc.
Influenced by the Yi -ology of Lai Zhide (a famous Yi -ologist in the Ming Dynasty), Dr. Schultz created a Taiji Diagram of Sixty-four Hexagram to reveal the internal relationship among the hexagrams, and put forward his own ideas on the hexagram order in the current version.
The professors of Zhouyi Center gave a high value on the theory of Dr. Schultz. They said that it is not an easy job for a western scholar to make such a deep research on the Zhouyi . Mr. Schultz' paper is to be published in the jounal of Zhouyi Studies (English version) in 2009.
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