Inside the mind

Yang Zi portrays psychologist, He Dun, in a TV series that zooms in on people's mental well-being. A new TV show Nyu Xinlishi touches upon psychological counseling, as people are paying increasing attention to mental health during the rapid social transformation. This is arguably the first TV drama in China that focuses on the topic of psychological counseling, claims Guo Feng, the show's producer. "I wanted people to know through reading this novel that a lot of behavioral problems are caused by psychological factors, and there exists mentality besides the body," she says. "It's a style that the life of the psychologist He Dun and her visitors' weaved with each other, because it usually takes three to five weeks or a longer time for a visitor to complete a psychological counseling process," Zhu says.