E. What is unique and different about Japanese therapies from other cultures with which you are familiar?
The handbook describes two Japanese indigenous psychotherapies, Naikan therapy and Morita therapy. Their goals of cultural accommodation, reached by different methods, are to resocialize clients to their social networks. Although not being familiar with U.S. psychotherapy practices, I find it unique that the goal is social restoration. Both of these therapies use negotiations (between client & therapist) that are mainly nonverbal along with some verbal work. This is reached not by verbal exploration between the therapist and the client as we would expect in the West, but by initial isolation from the client’s problem interpersonal networks. They are provided with a very structured therapeutic setting and routine in which they spend a vast amount of time in self-reflection and acceptance of fears and anxieties. These two therapies are very different from the Western models of psychoanalysis, client-centered therapy or behavior therapy. “Morita and Naikan therapies are both means to achieving ‘self-illumination’ within the Japanese cultural context.” This is done through highly structured self-reflection, very different from that which I am familiar. Unlike the Western focus on individuation of self, these Japanese cultural therapies concentrate on interpersonal transactions. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "CulturalandTraditionalHealthandHealing" group. To post to this group, send email to culturalandtraditionalhealthandhealing@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to culturalandtraditionalhealthandhealing+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.ca/group/culturalandtraditionalhealthandhealing?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
