现代心理医学认为心理肥胖症就是心理饱和状态,即心理的承受力到了极限的程度。如果人体长期体验某种情绪,以致超过心理所能承受的程度,就会导致心理肥胖症。美国好莱坞有个广为流传的笑话:施瓦辛格在竞选加州州长时,一位选民请他签名留念时,他信手写下“Approval(赞成)”一词。这可以看作心理肥胖症的典型例子。心理学最新研究表明,在社会竞争激烈与生活节奏不断加快的今 Modern psychological medicine that psychological obesity is the state of mental saturation, that is, the psychological endurance to the limit. If the human body experiences some kind of emotion over a long period of time, it will lead to psychological obesity. There is a widely circulated joke in Hollywood in the United States: When Schwarzenegger campaigned for governor of California, an elector asked him to sign a souvenir, he wrote “Approval.” This can be seen as a typical example of psychological obesity. The latest research in psychology shows that today’s society is fiercely competitive and the pace of life is accelerating