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Cooper, Paul C.

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“…Regardless of differences, Morita therapists, existential psychotherapists and psychoanalysts established consciousness theories that account for the creative tension that sits between wonder and doubt (Cooper, 2002). Morita agreed with the psychoanalytic premise that dynamic tensions in human relationships are essential to human existence.…”

Section: Concluding Remarks On Classic Morita Therapy and Eco-conscio...mentioning

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Classic Morita Therapy: Advancing Consciousness in Psychotherapy

LeVine

2016

Psychotherapy and Counselling Journal of Australia

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This article chronicles “peripheral consciousness” and therapy developed by Japanese psychiatrist Shōma Morita, MD (1874-1938). As a contemporary of Freud, Morita challenged psychoanalysts who sanctioned an unconscious or unconsciousness (collective or otherwise) that resides inside the mind. From a human justice perspective, Morita’s formulation of consciousness releases clients from being solely responsible for their dysfunction. Morita was drawn to the earnest nature of analysts and how they strove to comprehend their patients’ anxieties and developmental histories. In fact, Morita developed his theories and methods with as much rigour as his Euro-American contemporaries, including Sigmund Freud, Wilfred Bion, Melanie Klein, Wilhelm Reich, Jean Charcot, Jacob Levy Moreno, Jacque Lacan, Carl Rogers, and Alfred Adler. In the early 1950s, especially, analyst Karen Horney progressed her grasp of Morita, Zen and psychotherapy while in Japan. Since cognitive science took hold in the 1970s, however, complex consciousness theories have lost footing in psychology and medical science. This article aims to reinstate “consciousness” as the dynamic core of Morita therapy. He advanced a phenomenal connexion between existentialism, Zen, Nature and the therapeutic role of serendipity; his views enhance Freud’s 1919 treatise on “The Uncanny”. The presence or absence of a theory of consciousness sways how, what, and where we practice and conduct research, as well as case formulation and health promotion. Morita is our forerunner of Ecopsychology and pioneer in consciousness studies. Pointedly, he equalised the strength between human-to-human attachment and human-to-Nature bonds by penetrating our anthropomorphic borders.

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Section: Concluding Remarks On Classic Morita Therapy and Eco-conscio...mentioning

confidence: 96%

Classic Morita Therapy: Advancing Consciousness in Psychotherapy

LeVine

2016

Psychotherapy and Counselling Journal of Australia

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Seeking Comfort in an Uncomfortable Chair

Molinari

2017

The Psychoanalytic Quarterly

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The author explores the concept of comfort in relation to the setting. The concept of comfort, an unusual word in the psychoanalytic lexicon, describes the intuitive and complex experience of patient and analyst being together in the analytic office. The couch and the chair are not the only tools of the setting, but they are potential instruments with which to study the therapeutic process, both in high-frequency therapy and in lower-frequency treatments. To describe the transformations that an alternative experience of comfort can promote, the author looks at the intersection of this concept with the body-mind relationship and with the Bionian concept of binocular vision.

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Therapieziele in der ambulanten kognitiv-verhaltenstherapeutischen oder psychodynamischen Psychotherapie – notwendig oder irrelevant?

Schöttke

Sembill

Eversmann

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Zeitschrift für Klinische Psychologie und Psychotherapie

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Zusammenfassung. Theoretischer Hintergrund: Mit dem Berner Inventar zur Erfassung von Therapiezielen (BIT-T) werden mögliche Unterschiede im Umfang und inhaltlichen Schwerpunkt der Zielsetzung kognitiv-behavioraler (KVT) und psychodynamischer Therapien (PDT) untersucht. Fragestellung: Neben der Reliabilität des BIT-T sollen Patienten, KVT- und PDT-Therapeuten hinsichtlich Unterschieden in ihren Therapiezielen untersucht werden. Eine mögliche Vorhersage des Therapieerfolges durch den BIT-T ist von weiterem Interesse. Methode: Die Therapieziele von 472 Patienten und aus 283 ambulanten Therapieanträgen auf KVT und 189 Anträgen auf PDT wurden mit Hilfe des BIT-T kategorisiert. Die Therapieeffektivität wurde mittels des Fragebogens zur Evaluation von Psychotherapieverläufen (FEP) bestimmt. Ergebnisse: Die Beobachterübereinstimmung des BIT-T erweist sich als überwiegend gut bis sehr gut. Bedeutsame Übereinstimmungen zwischen Therapeuten und Patientenzielen können nicht festgestellt werden. KVT- und PDT-Therapien unterscheiden sich in ihren angestrebten Zielen. Problem- und symptombezogene Ziele der Therapeuten sind mit dem Erfolg der Therapie assoziiert. Schlussfolgerungen: Die Beachtung von Therapiezielen erweist sich als bedeutsamer Faktor für Therapiequalität und -erfolg.

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Cited by 13 publications

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Classic Morita Therapy: Advancing Consciousness in Psychotherapy

Classic Morita Therapy: Advancing Consciousness in Psychotherapy

Seeking Comfort in an Uncomfortable Chair

Therapieziele in der ambulanten kognitiv-verhaltenstherapeutischen oder psychodynamischen Psychotherapie – notwendig oder irrelevant?

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