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Objective] To study emotional counterbalance therapy which is used in depression treatment ,it plays an important role in the treatment of emotional disorders. [Method] With the research methods of taking depression for example ,through the sad,fear of these two emotional factors to explore the pathogenesis of depression,and analyze“happiness restrains sadness“ and“thought restrains fear”in the emotional counterbalance therapy, which are used in the depression clinical application.[Result]Emotional counterbalance uses one or more of the emotions to regulate ,control,overcome the other one or more negative emotions,which based on the restriction among the five elements theory is a kind of psychological therapy.Sadandfearare the most common chief complaints in depression which belong to the emotional depression in depression disease of Chinese medicine. On the basis of “sad doing harm to the lungs”and “dread doing harm to the kidneys”,lung,kidney and depression etiology,pathogenesis,symptoms are closely related. This reflects the lung,kidney play an indispensable role in the treatment of depression. It has significant curative effects to apply the theory of emotion counterbalance,such as happiness restrains sadness,thought restrains fear to cure diseases. At the same time,with a relaxed and pleasant mood,actively guiding to help thinking is also the treatment of depression,pessimistic disappointment medicine.[Conclusion] According to the restriction among five elements theory,to use the relation and restriction between emotion and five zang-organs to regulate emotional disorders can restore to the normal balance,which is an effective psychological treatment for emotional disorders.The therapy should be used alone or combined with traditional Chinese medicine treatment in different situations to relive the treatment effect.