About the author

Zheng Shiyan is a Chinese translator and author of psychology books. Public information about him is limited, and no systematic account of his life has yet appeared. The library holds ten of his works, spanning applied psychology, psychological research, social science, documentary writing, social psychology, and biography. His representative translations include classic psychological works such as The Neurotic Personality of Our Time, Our Inner Conflicts, and Understanding Human Nature, as well as The Middle Passage: The Second Formation of Personality, Becoming Myself: A Psychiatrist's Memoir by Irvin D. Yalom, The Odyssey of the Spirit: A Biography of Rollo May, and A History of Psychology (2nd Edition). His work focuses on introducing psychoanalysis, humanistic psychology, and the history of psychology, with translations that aim to stay close to the originals and use standard terminology, serving as a bridge for Chinese readers of Western psychology classics.

Written (10)

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Rating 4.3
Understanding Human Nature Alfred Adler / 郑世彦 Tianjin People's Publishing House · 2026 Understanding Human Nature is the representative work of Alfred Adler, founder of individual psychology and a master of psychoanalysis, compiled from …
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Rating 3.3
Pain Addiction: The Hidden Desires That Make People Repeatedly Hurt 卡洛琳·埃利奥特 / 郑世彦 Zhejiang University Press · 2026 We tend to believe that we pursue only socially approved "good" standards—success, health, happiness—while staying silent about experiences deemed "ne…
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Rating 4.2
History of Psychology (Original 2nd Edition) 埃里克·希雷 / 郑世彦 / 刘思诗 / 柴丹 China Machine Press · 2025 This book presents, in chronological order, the social contexts, key figures and their ideas, lives, and theoretical schools that drove the developmen…
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Rating 4.2
Becoming Myself: A Memoir of Irvin Yalom 欧文·D.亚隆 / 杨立华 / 郑世彦 China Machine Press · 2025 In this book, Professor Yalom recalls some of the important episodes of his life—some pivotal, some glorious, some still unknown and open. What they s…
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Rating 4.2
The Road of Midlife (2 Volumes) 詹姆斯·霍利斯 / 郑世彦 / 苏西 Hangzhou Blue Lion Culture & Creative Co., Ltd. · 2024 In The Middle Path: The Second Forming of Personality, the author gets to the heart of the midlife crisis: it is not a matter of age but a psychologic…
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Rating 4.0
The Odyssey of the Spirit: A Biography of Rollo May 罗伯特·H.阿布朱格 / 郑世彦 / 王澜 Zhejiang University Press · 2024 In the last eight years of Rollo May's life, the author, Robert H. Abzug, was his close companion and confidant. They spent many weekends together, ch…
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Rating 4.3
The Road Through Midlife: The Second Shaping of the Personality 詹姆斯·霍利斯 / 郑世彦 Zhejiang University Press · 2023 Why do so many people encounter setbacks in midlife? Why do we treat these setbacks as a crisis? And what meaning do such crises and experiences hold?…
Personality Psychology cover
Rating 4.0
Personality Psychology Alfred Adler / 郑世彦 · 2022 This book, first published in 1927, is a transcript of the author's public lectures on psychology, mainly introducing the basic principles of individu…
The Neurotic Personality of Our Time cover
Rating 4.4
The Neurotic Personality of Our Time Karen Horney / 郑世彦 Shanghai Culture Publishing House · 2021 This book is the breakout work and representative text of Karen Horney, a renowned Western psychologist and psychiatrist. Its fifteen chapters sketch …
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Rating 4.3
Our Inner Conflicts Karen Horney / 郑世彦 Zhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House · 2021 A sharp, incisive, and resolutely optimistic manual of self-psychoanalysis. None of us escape the ills of modern civilization, and we are all mired in…

Publishers

Shanghai Culture Publishing HouseTianjin People's Publishing HouseChina Machine PressHangzhou Blue Lion Culture & Creative Co., Ltd.Zhejiang University PressZhejiang Literature and Art Publishing House