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Flowing Bridges, Quiet Waters: Japanese Psychotherapies, Morita and Naikan (SUNY series in Transpersonal and Humanistic Psychology) by David K Reynolds; NetLibrary, Inc is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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This book is the first to discuss experiences of the Morita and Naikan ways of life in the Western World. Although Morita and Naikan are therapies--perspectives on neurotic habits and their correction--the vision is educational rather than medical. The approach offers a way of acknowledging feelings while engaging in constructive living. With roots in Zen, the principles of this constructive living were formulated over 80 years ago by Shoma Morita, a Japanese psychiatrist. Like Zen, these principles are thoroughly grounded in the reality of the here and now. Morita’s methods are aimed at the person who suffers from anxiety, shyness, phobias, and obsessions that often manifest in physical symptoms such as headaches, insomnia, stomach disorders, and heart palpitations. However the techniques are available and beneficial to people at widely different stages of self-development, not just to those whose lives are plagued by neurotic suffering. Reynolds offers a look at the adaptations necessary to transform and transport these Japanese methods into techniques useful to Westerners. Cultural-psychological insights are presented by the author who is both an anthropologist and clinici

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Author

David K Reynolds; NetLibrary, Inc

Publisher

Albany : State University Of New York Press, C1989.

Published

1989

Language

EN

ISBN

9780887069642

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Psychology, Medical, Social_sciences