Chikako Ozawa-De Silva

Psychotherapy and Religion in Japan

The Japanese Introspection Practice of Naikan

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Produktbeschreibung

Based on anthropological fieldwork, this book provides an ethnography of Naikan, a Japanese psychotherapeutic method. It discusses key issues such as the role of memory, autobiography and narrative in health care, and more. It is suitable for students of social and cultural anthropology, medical sociology, religious studies, and Japanese studies.

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Naikan is a Japanese psychotherapeutic method which combines meditation-like body engagement with the recovery of memory and the reconstruction of one's autobiography in order to bring about healing and a changed notion of the self. Based on original anthropological fieldwork, this fascinating book provides a detailed ethnography of Naikan in practice. In addition, it discusses key issues such as the role of memory, autobiography and narrative in health care, and the interesting borderland between religion and therapy, where Naikan occupies an ambiguous position. Multidisciplinary in its approach, it will attract a wide readership, including students of social and cultural anthropology, medical sociology, religious studies, Japanese studies and psychotherapy.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. August 2006
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 507g
• ISBN-13: 9780415336758
• ISBN-10: 0415336759
• Artikelnr.: 22108206

Autorenporträt

Chikako Ozawa-de Silva is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Emory University. Her work focuses on cross-cultural understandings of health and illness, mind and body, religious healing practices, medicine and therapy in the fields of medical anthropology, psychological anthropology and the anthropology of religion by bringing together Western and Asian (particularly Japanese and Tibetan) methodologies and epistemologies.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Naikan 1. Introduction: The Theory and Practice of Introspection 2.
The Expansion of Naikan 3. Personal Accounts of Naikan Part 2: Therapy 4. A
Confessed Therapy 5. Embodies Memory and the Reconstruction of
Autobiography 6. Naikan as an Alternative to Western Therapies Part 3:
Religion 7. Naikan's Shin Buddhist Legacy 8. Enclosed Silence, Sacred
Space: Death in the Naikan Environment 9. Using the Body: The Role of
Meditation 10. Elements of Christianity in Naikan? 11. From Salvation to
Healing: Ties between Religion and Therapy Part 4: Health & Society 12. The
Place of Culture in Health and Illness 13. Conclusion: Questioning the
Categories of Religion and Psychotherapy