Dr Caifang Zhu is chair and core faculty of the Chinese PhD program in transpersonal psychology and recipient of Excellence in Teaching Award at Sofia. He is deputy secretary-general of the International Transpersonal Association and associate director of Transpersonal Psychology Committee under Beijing Positive Psychology Association. He is an adjunct professor at the Buddhist Academy of China. He has more than 30 papers published internationally and has translated Jung´s Psychology and Religion: West and East. Caifang has developed a model called Grounding and Communication as an Integrative Therapy known earlier as Meditation Initiated Integrative Therapy (MIIT). He has been practicing meditation and tai chi since early 1990s. He chaired Harvard Buddhist Community in 2003-2004 and was director of community service, Harvard Alumni for Mental Health in 2021-2022.
University Email: caifang.zhu@sofia.edu
Program: PhD in Transpersonal Psychology (Chinese Language)
Education:
- PhD in East-West Psychology, California University of Integral Studies (formerly California Institute of Integral Studies).
- M.T.S., Harvard Divinity School.
- B.A. in English, Beijing International Studies University (formerly Beijing Second Institute of Foreign Languages)
Educational Research:
PhD dissertation: The Ordinary Mind in Chan/Zen Buddhism and Its Psychological Significance
Licensures & Certifications:
Certified Psychological Counseling Supervisor in China
Research & Training Interests:
Humanistic, transpersonal, integral psychology and psychotherapies, meditation practices as spirituality and means of healing and well-being, Jungian Psychology, altered states of consciousness, near-death experiences and reincarnation, Buddhist and Daoist Philosophies and Psychologies, comparative religion, grounded communication as an integrative therapy, non-violent communication, Tai Chi praxis, transpersonal leadership.
Publications:
Zhu, C., & Liu, H. (2022). On becoming a person: Perspectives from Carl Rogers, Huineng, Wang Yangming, and Ken Wilber. Beijing International Review of Education.
Zhu, C. (2021). Chan Buddhism and meditation. In M. Farias, D. Brazier, & M. Lalljee (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of meditation. Oxford University Press. (Original work published 2020).
Zhu, C. (2020). Grounding and communication as an integrative therapy. In C. Fracasso, S. Krippner, & H. Friedman (Eds.), Holistic treatment in mental health: A handbook of practitioners’ perspectives (pp. 259–272). McFarland.
Zhu, C. (2013). C. G. Jung on the nature and interpretation of dreams—A developmental delineation with cognitive and neuroscientific responses. Behavioral Sciences, 3, 662–675.
Zhu, C. (2012). Ordinary mind: Meditation initiated integrative therapy. In T. G. Plante (Ed.), Religion and positive psychology: Understanding the psychological fruits of faith (pp. 159–176). Praeger.
Zhu, C. (2011). The hermeneutics of Chan Buddhism: Reading koans from the Blue Cliff Record. Asian Philosophy, 21(4), 373–393.
Zhu, C. (2009). Analytical psychology and Daoist inner alchemy: A response to C. G. Jung’s commentary on The Secret of the Golden Flower. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 54(4), 493–512.
