A5038532253- Mental Health and Psychiatry
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Japanese History and Culture
- Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices
- Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
- Historical and modern epidemiology studies
- Child Therapy and Development
- Personality Disorders and Psychopathology
- Disability Rights and Representation
- Health and Conflict Studies
- Mental Health and Patient Involvement
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Neurosurgical Procedures and Complications
- Neuroethics, Human Enhancement, Biomedical Innovations
- Arctic and Russian Policy Studies
- Obesity and Health Practices
- Suicide and Self-Harm Studies
- Aging, Elder Care, and Social Issues
- Historical Gender and Feminism Studies
- Schizophrenia research and treatment
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Social Policy and Reform Studies
- Takotsubo Cardiomyopathy and Associated Phenomena
Keio University
2008-2023
Health and Human Development (2HD) Research Network
2008-2015
McGill University
2003-2004
Until recently in Japan, mental health issues have been carefully guarded as personal and family secrets. In 2014, however, the government passed a revision of Labor Safety Hygiene Law institutionalized "stress checks" for workers across nation. This screening was installed response to high number depressed suicidal country plagued by recession since 1990s. The also prompted grassroots movement that helped establish state corporate responsibility protecting workers' health. These changes...
Abstract Living in the world's leading superaging society, Japanese are confronted with a tsunami of dementia that has generated fear becoming mentally incommensurable to oneself and others. Based on three years fieldwork various clinical settings, including memory clinic Tokyo, I show how people (dementia tojishas) doctors have employed approaches overcoming incommensurability: psychotherapeutic, neurobiological, ecological. With primary focus tojishas try cultivate what call...
In Japan, admission to a psychiatric facility for people with schizophrenia is usually life. We developed rehabilitation program aimed at discharging these patients into the Tokyo community. This paper describes results 224 patients. Using an inpatient ward Musashino Hospital, were enrolled in and subsequently discharged community assigned worker. The indicate majority (79%) re-integration was successful. success of this metropolitan city like argues efficacy such programs.
Scholars of transcultural psychiatry have long wondered why psychoanalysis has remained marginal in Japan, despite its early introduction there. Psychotherapy, however, been steadily growing popularity, and Jungians played no small part this development. This article provides a brief historical sketch psychotherapy Japan by focusing on how cultivated following through imaginative cultural critiques therapeutic practices such as sandplay therapy. The also touches upon the particularly Jungian...
Scholars of transcultural psychiatry have long wondered why psychoanalysis has remained marginal in Japan, despite its early introduction there. Psychotherapy, however, been steadily growing popularity, and Jungians played no small part this development. This article provides a brief historical sketch psychotherapy Japan by focusing on how cultivated following through imaginative cultural critiques therapeutic practices such as sandplay therapy. The also touches upon the particularly Jungian...
How can we imagine someone's experience of illness-even extreme cases, like, for example, psychosis-to the extent that begin to empathize as if were nearly our own? Based on 5 years archival research and anthropological fieldwork, I investigate how different forms understanding empathy have emerged through work people living with dementia (dementia tōjishas), some who advocated cause in Japan. show those used be regarded incommensurable beings, sometimes romanticized having a transcendental...
Depression, which psychiatrists regard as a most common mental illness, has been examined by anthropologists especially closely since the 1980s. While medical experts consider depression universal, neurobiological disease that requires global public health intervention, instead ask why illness known in psychiatry ‘depression’ appears to have extremely rare much of world until very recently. They also investigate how supposedly disorder could possibly arise with increasing frequency so many...
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