作家名片 | 毕淑敏——文学界的白衣天使
近年来，中国文化“走出去”的影响力不断扩大，在全球文化多元化发展日益兴盛的背景下，中国文化译研网（CCTSS）联合中国作家协会《小说选刊》杂志社，启动“新世纪中国当代作家、作品海外传播数据库”项目，将100位中国当代优秀作家的简介、代表作品以及展示作家风采的短视频翻译为10种语言，集结成1000张中国作家名片向全球推介。千张“作家名片”将鲜明地向世界宣告：我是中国作家，我在进行中国创作。
此种形式和规模是中国故事走向世界的一大创新，会让世界更加全面、客观、公正地了解中国优秀作家作品，同时也是打通中国文化走向世界的“最后一公里”。
毕淑敏，女,1952年10月出生于新疆伊宁，祖籍山东省威海市文登区。17岁赴西藏阿里当兵，任卫生员、军医。1980年回北京，任内科主治医师。后获得北京师范大学文学硕士、心理学博士学位。北京作协副主席，中国作协第五、六、七届全委会委员。1987年发表处女作《昆仑殇》，代表作有中篇小说《预约死亡》，长篇小说《红处方》《拯救乳房》《女心理师》等。作家王蒙称她为“文学界的白衣天使”。
毕淑敏的创作大多都与医生生活、心理疗愈、青少年成长有关。悲悯的情怀融合专业的心理学知识，具体化为一个个震撼人心的故事，缓缓展开。她正视死亡与血污，冷静理智地为读者开出了一剂剂良方。她的小说有青春的沉重、生命的厚实以及对死亡的思索，书写了生命的勇气和深度。
《红处方》写了一家戒毒医院的院长简方宁拯救了不少吸毒者，独创性的中药戒毒方案的研究和实施也已初见成效。然而，女院长在女吸毒者庄羽的算计下也染上了无法戒除的毒瘾。简方宁便以自杀的方式昭示人类的意志远超于毒品的强力。故事是以院长的好友沈若鱼的亲历与见闻而展开的，沈出于好奇，以患者的身份潜入医院，接触了形形色色的吸毒者。最终不堪精神重负，仓皇撤出。
《女心理师》关注当代中国人的精神家园和心理健康问题。小说的女主人公贺顿开了一家心理诊所，本为抚去故乡带给她的屈辱。然而每天面对有种种精神困惑的案主，倾听他们讲述的真实故事，加之自己的感情难题，贺顿心理几近崩溃。一位很有权威的心理师试过种种方法为她“督导”，最后用非法的手段帮助贺顿找到了深藏已久的症结，使她走向了新生。然而当她继续深造，在课堂上遇到了昔日的权威时，对他说：你的疗法是完全错误的，我要控告你。
《拯救乳房》写了海外归来的心理学博士程远青受制药公司资助，刊出广告，面向社会招募乳腺癌病人，组成心理治疗小组。老干部、公务员、硕士生、下岗女工、白领丽人、性别不明的神秘来客……各种职业和身份的人汇聚在一起，共同的疾病使他们紧紧联成一个团体，各自复杂的经历和内心的挣扎使他们在小组内碰撞成长。这是中国首部心理学家撰写的心理治疗的小说，探讨了癌症病人精神尊严的问题，饱含人文关怀精神。
《预约死亡》是一部直面死亡，书写死亡的小说。书中作者访谈了“临终翔”医院将逝的病人及其亲友、医生，展现了一幅幅生命濒临结束的真实画面，在死亡现象的背后蕴含的是人性之美。
Bi Shumin, female, was born in Xinjiang’s Yining city in October 1952. Her ancestry originates from the Wendeng district of the city of Weihai in Shandong Province. When she was 17 years old, she went to Ngari Prefecture in Tibet to serve in the military as a medic and military doctor. She returned to Beijing in 1980 and served as an attending physician in internal medicine. Later on she earned a Master’s Degree in Literature and a Doctorate in Psychology from Beijing Normal University. She is Vice Chairman of the Beijing Writers Association and a member of the 5th, 6th, and 7th general committee of the China Writers Association. Her first work An Elegy for the Kunlun Mountains was published in 1987. Her signature works include the medium length novel An Appointment with Death, and the full-length novels Red Prescription, Rescuing Breasts, and Female Psychologist. The famous writer Wang Meng has called her “a white robed angel in the world of literature”.
Bi Shumin’s writing primarily has to do with the lives of doctors, psychological healing, and young people’s growing up. Compassion blended with professional psychological knowledge materializes into stories that slowly unfold and shock people’s hearts. She looks squarely at death and blood, and calmly and rationally prescribes one effective prescription after another for readers. Her novels possess the weight of youth\the density of life along with speculations on death, and depict the bravery and depth of life.
Red Precription tells the story of Jian Fangning, the director of a drug rehabilitation center, who saves many drug addicts. Research and implementation of an original Chinese medicine drug rehabilitation program has already seen results. However, under the manipulation of a female drug user named Zhuang Yu, the Director also ends up becoming addicted to a drug that is impossible to quit. Jian Fangning declares to the whole world by committing suicide that human will far surpasses the powerful force of drugs. The story unfolds from the personal experiences of the director’s friend Shen Ruoyu. Out of curiosity Shen sneaks into the hospital disguised as a patient, and comes across all kinds of drug addicts. In the end she cannot bear the heavy psychological toll, and leaves the drug rehabilitation center in a panic.
Female Psychologist is concerned with the spiritual home and psychological health of modern Chinese people. Its female protagonist, He Dun,opens a psychological clinic initially to comfort and free herself from the humiliation that her hometown brought upon her. However, facing various kinds of spiritually bewildered case subjects every day, and listening to them recount their true stories in addition to her own emotional conundrums, He Dun nearly has a mental breakdown. An authoritative psychologist attempts all kinds of methods to “supervise” her, and in the end he uses an illegal method to discover the crux of her emotional problems, which had been hidden away for a long time. This enables her to start a new life. However, when she comes across the authority figure from the past while pursuing advanced studies, she says to him: Your treatment was completely wrong. I’m going to sue you.
Rescuing Breasts tells the story of Cheng Yuanqing, a Phd in psychology who has returned home from overseas, who is subsidized by a pharmaceutical company, publishes advertisements to recruit breast cancer patients to form a pyschological treatment group. Cadre members, civil servants, master students, laid-off female workers, white collar beauties, a mysterious visitor whose gender is unclear...people from a variety of professions and with various identities gather together. A common illness makes them closely unite into a group. Each of their complex experiences and internal struggles enable them to collide and grow within the group. This is China’s first novel on psychological treatment written by a psychologist. It explores the problem of the spiritual dignity of cancer patients, and is imbued with the spirit of humanistic concern.
An Appointment with Death is a novel that directly confronts and depicts death. In the book the author interviews the terminally ill patients of the “Linzhong Xiang (on the verge of the final flight)” Hospital along with their friends, family, and doctors. One real picture after another of life at death’s door emerges throughout the book. Behind the phenomenon of death lies the beauty of human nature.
编辑 | 朱贺芳
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