Powerful young actors Yang Zi and Jing Bairan partnered for the first time, and "Female Psychologist" was highly anticipated before it was broadcast.
However, after the start of the broadcast, the drama also received some criticism, and the voices discussing the suitability of the characters and the authenticity of the plot came and went, and there were two details that I was deeply impressed by.
First, when Horton, a psychological counselor played by Yang Zi, received the visitor for the first time, she listened to the other party's crying but did not hand over a tissue, objectively and calmly analyzed the crux of the other party, and the tone was cold and there was no comforting component;
The second is Qian Kaiyi, a radio host played by Jing Bairan, who used a rope cornice to walk the wall to rescue the trapped students when the students in his substitute class intended to commit suicide.
In fact, some of these seemingly unreasonable settings in the early stage are laying the groundwork for the subsequent plot development.
Horton's cold tone is because she suffered from severe traumatic stress after the death of her brother when she was a child, which also led to her inability to empathize with others, and the action of handing a tissue would interrupt the client's emotional catharsis.
As for why Qian Kaiyi flew over the wall, it was because his deceased father was a firefighter, because he admired and regretted that he had also been admitted to the firefighter.
If the enthusiasm of today's audiences for chasing the drama is not ignited in the first three episodes, it is difficult to insist on watching it all the way down.
But if you look at the complete episode of "Female Psychologist", it is not difficult to find that every psychological counseling case that Horton is exposed to in this drama is very representative, especially the multi-faceted and profound discussion of the workplace, marriage, and original family.
Last week, the show ended, and the social issues it reflected are still worth exploring.
1 Workplace
"Female Psychologist" chooses the psychological counselor, which is rarely involved in film and television dramas, which is slightly mysterious in the eyes of the public, and reveals to the audience their professional rules, healing methods, and even restores the decoration principle of the psychological counseling room, which is very elaborate at the professional level.
Some people are worried that "Female Psychologist" will wear the cloak of workplace drama to engage in idol love, but in fact, it is not necessary.
The perspective of Horton, the psychological counselor of this drama, on the one hand, she also healed her own growing pain in the process of treating the client, on the other hand, she and Qian Kaiyi answered the difficulties and emotional problems encountered by the listeners in life through the "Heart Night Talk" radio program.
The analysis of the psychological counseling cases that Horton took over one by one is like unfolding a small ukiyo-e, in which all kinds of human beings are in it.
Starting with workplace problems, the most common workplace old and good man Xiao Mo (Zhang Haiyu) is very typical. He is a flattering personality, who does not know how to refuse any request from anyone, but the more desperate he wants to fit into the circle, the more counterproductive it is.
He often buys milk tea for colleagues, and writes down everyone's tastes and needs, but colleagues go out to dinner without anyone calling him; colleagues ask him to help him make PPT, but his own work is not finished, and he is afraid that after refusal, others hate himself and can only agree;
It was hard to eat with colleagues, but they were drunk to find happiness...
Xiao Mo always cares that if he rejects others, he is likely to be isolated, but we onlookers know that these are ineffective socialization for him, and the time he spends on pleasing others is used to enrich himself and make it more meaningful to become strong.
Women will encounter more difficulties in the workplace, such as interviews, personnel often ask whether they can balance career and family, and then such as unspoken rules and sexual harassment.
Good-looking Li Wei encountered the harassment of the boss of the partner, she did not dare to tell others, came to Horton's consultation room to talk, and still questioned whether she should not wear her favorite clothes and live like a well-behaved woman and not be bullied?
Later, she plucked up the courage to tell her own experience on the website, but many public opinions were accusing her of misconduct, and the people around her also held the victim guilt theory, and the leaders who knew the inside story even used promotion opportunities to make deals, so that she did not miss the opportunity to cooperate...
In the play, Xiao Mo finally changed to a new company, and finally faced his heart after treatment, Li Wei's colleagues also suffered sexual harassment, but this time she and her colleagues took up arms against the perpetrators, and everyone ushered in a new hope, perhaps to give some inspiration to people who encountered difficulties in the workplace in reality.
2 Marriages
If the workplace is a battlefield without smoke, marriage is undoubtedly a siege city with rules, and love is a matter of two people, but marriage is not.
Da Fang and Lao Matsumoto are a loving couple who share hardships and hardships, but near middle age they seem to be bored with each other, and Da Fang suspects that Lao Song is mentally derailed when he dances square dance, and Lao Song can't argue with her.
After Horton's psychological counseling for the two respectively, it was found that the crux of the problem was that this marriage relationship was originally a strong woman and a weak man, Anda Fang always dominated the relationship between the two parties, and Lao Song also habitually did not express his opinion.
Because marriage, having children, having children, going to college, and other marriage events mask these small contradictions.
Feelings have faded, there is no common topic, and it has become an inducement for the breakdown of many marriages.
Just like the biggest problem between Da Fang and Lao Song is the lack of communication, the long-term you chase me and run away will have a backlog of small contradictions, which may suddenly erupt because of a small matter.
Xiaoyuan and Sasha are also as noisy as little lovers when they are in love, and when they meet Sasha, Xiaoyuan always doesn't know how to coax, so he gives time to wait for her to calm down.
However, when the wedding was about to proceed, Xiao yuan arranged the wedding scene as a combination of Chinese and Western in order to meet the Western-style wedding that Sasha wanted and the Chinese-style wedding that her mother insisted on, and the contradiction finally broke out completely.
The auspicious time has arrived, but Sasha locks herself in the room and can't live out, she doesn't want to get married, she's just accusing Xiaoyuan of never listening to her voice...
There are also many cases of marital difficulties in the play, such as Zhan Lu, a stay-at-home mother. She was a mother of two, but after giving birth to her youngest son, she suffered from severe postpartum depression.
She met the right person at the right age, got married and had children to complete the major events of life step by step, and played the role of "wife", "mother" and "daughter-in-law".
After marriage, everything about Zhan Lu was circling around her small family, but when she found that she gradually lost her dreams, social attributes, and even lost her self-worth in her married life, she fell into deep anxiety, until she picked up her young writer's dream and began to go out of the house to find job opportunities, she rekindled the fighting spirit of life.
3 native families
"Happy childhood heals a lifetime, unhappy childhood needs a lifetime to heal", this is the influence of the original family that "Female Psychologist" has been expressing.
The personalities and behaviors of several protagonists, Horton, Qian Kaiyi, Tang Lili, and Ye Jiahui, are all influenced by their original families, for better or worse.
Qian Kaiyi is positive and cheerful, although his parents died early, but his firefighter father taught his boys to be brave and responsible from an early age;
Ye Jiahui is cold and gloomy, because his mother has abandoned himself since he was a child, and his adoptive father has always instilled in him the obsession of revenge;
Tang Lili's mother only comes to her when she asks for money, so she doesn't believe in love and only wants to make money...
The mother of Jiang Jing, the overeating eater, forced her daughter to play the piano for nearly thirty years, trapping her daughter in a small room in the name of love.
Jiang Jing complained bitterly that she was like her mother's marionette, although her mother loved her, she did not respect her personal wishes at all, and lived without freedom, and finally decided to commit suicide when her mother locked her in the room again...
Some people will feel that the cases in "Female Psychologist" are somewhat extreme and extreme, but they do not know that most of these cases are real stories that really happen in real news, and even the reality is more cruel than the form presented in film and television dramas.
In "The Female Psychologist," Horton has been stressing not to call those who come to her for counseling "patients" but "clients," and she often tells her clients that they are "sick and ordinary people", no different from others.
In reality, people with mental illness often can't face up to their own problems, think that they are "abnormal", and even ashamed to see a psychologist.
For the emotional turmoil of the people around us, we should not rush to question and accuse, but should give timely care, maybe they are just sick, and the signal emitted by their uneasy emotions is likely to be "help me".