Morita Therapy and the True Nature of Anxiety-Based Disorders (Shinkeishitsu)

Shoma Morita published the original Japanese version of this translation in 1928. This English translation was developed by Akihisa Kondo , a practitioner of classical Morita therapy, Zen, and psychoanalysis. Peg LeVine is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Psychological Medicine at Monash University and is the only English-speaking person outside Japan practicing the classical four-stage Morita treatment.

• List of Illustrations Translator's Preface Author's Preface Editor's Introduction Author's Introduction 1. Principles of Morita Therapy Shiso-no-mujun: Contradiction between Ideas and RealitySubjectivity and ObjectivityEmotion and KnowledgeTaitoku (Experiential Embodied Understanding) and Rikai (Intellectual Understanding)Beliefs, Judgments, and Errors of LogicTheories of the UnconciousNature and ArtificialityObjective Projection of IdeasObedience to NatureThe Opposing Function of MindChoice of CircumstanceMeaning of "Subjectivity"AttentionRelationship between Attention and ConsciousnessHarmonizing Function of the MindMushoju-shinGuiding Principles of Emotions 2. Therapy for Anxiety Disorders with Hypochondriasis (Shinkeishitsu) Origins of the Method of Treatments by MoritaThe First Stage: Isolation and RestThe Second Stage: Light Occupational WorkThe Third Stage: Intensive Occupational WorkThe Fourth Stage: Preparation for Daily LivingPure Mind 3. The Effectiveness of Morita Therapy The Effectiveness of Morita TherapyProcess of RecoveryHealing in Clients with Chronic Organic DysfunctionCourse of TreatmentAdverse Effects of Conventional Methods of Treatment 4. Therapy for Paroxysmal Neurosis What is Paroxysmal Neurosis?A Client with Attacks of PalpitationsA Client with Attacks of GastrospasmA Client with Attacks Resembling Labor Pain 5. Therapy for Obsessive Disorders and Phobias Nature of Obsesseive DisordersTherapeutic Focus in Treating Obsessive DisordersPlunge into FearRecovery in a Client with a Fear of StealingCourse of Treatment 6. Persuasion Therapy What is Persuasion Therapy?Adverse Effects of Logical PersuasionAttachment to EgoEgo-Centered DogmatismAttachment as a Biased ViewAttitude toward FearReligious and Philosophical PersuasionReturn to Nature 7. Experiential Therapy for the Treatment of Anxiety-Based Disorders Relation to Other DisordersSensitivity to SymptomsReligion and View of LifeThe Relationship between Superstition and Obsessive DisordersThe Rose of Education in Promoting Mental and Physical Health Editor's Glossary of Morita Therapy Terms Supplementary Section: Theories about Nature and Disorder that Inform Morita Therapy Hypochondriasis and AnxietySeishin-kogo-sayoClassification of Anxiety-Based Disorders (Shinkeishitsu)Reconceptualizing Personality DisordersClassification of Dispositions References Index

"Some of Morita's insights into the changeable nature of feelings and attention were ahead of his time. These insights fit well with some modern theories of how the dynamic brain works." — Henry J. Kahn, University of California-San Francisco"This book is important in itself as a historical document as Morita therapy represents a unique form of treatment which has emerged out of Japanese culture. It presents a different perspective on mental health and impairment and thus another way of understanding human beings." — Mike Sayama, author of Samadhi: Self Development in Zen, Swordsmanship, and Psychotherapy