The mid-term evaluation is organized in two parts and starts with a 2-hour public seminar, followed by a closed meeting.
The purpose of the evaluation is to assess the progress of the PhD project at a point when it is still possible to make small or substantial changes. In general, we want to know how the candidate is doing, how much work is done, and what is left.
About the PhD candidate and her research
My PhD project analyses how emotional suffering was understood and dealt with by the Southern Song physician Chen Wuze 陳無擇 (陳言) in his monograph A Unified Treatise on Diseases, Patterns, and Recipes According to the Three Causes (三因極一病證方論). Besides analysing his treatise, the study also traces the various historical sources and influences of Chen’s ideas, and the impact his doctrines of the ‘Seven Affect’ (七情) and ‘Three Causes’ (三因) had on the further development and significance of psychological theories in Chinese medicine. The title of my dissertation is:
‘Remapping the Emotional Landscape in Late Song: Therapeutic Strategies for Visceral Psychosomatics in Chen Wuze’s Seven Affects Doctrine’.
My PhD study is also connected to Prof Halvor Eifring’s larger project ‘Two Thousand Years of Mind Wandering’, which focuses on the cultural history of spontaneous thoughts and emotions in contemplative traditions.
My main academic interests are East Asian medical traditions, Chinese medicine, Chinese medical psychology, East Asian philosophy, History of Emotion, Affect theory, Mind-Body relationship, Philosophy of mind, Meditative and Contemplative traditions.