Kai-Cheng Wong
Department of Psychology Fu-Jen Catholic University
This article unfolds various encounters: the author’s encounter with a group of senior psychologists graduated from the Department of Psychology of Fu Jen Catholic University in Bei-ping some fifty or sixty years ago; the encounter between the psychology departments of the Fu Jen in Bei-Ping and the one in Taiwan; the encounter of modern Chinese and Taiwanese history; the encounter between western psychology and “benevolence＂ (仁, ren) the ultimate ideal of Confucianism; the encounter of the spirits of western psychology and Chinese consciousness; the encounter of the author’s personal and the professional selves. These ceaseless chains of encounters connect individual dots to shape the future development of psychological studies in Taiwan.
Keywords：Ren (仁), Confucianism, psychology, Psychology of “Fu-Jen”, humanistic psychology, alternative psychology.