Asian Culture and Psychotherapy : Implications for East and West

by Tseng, Wen-Shing; CHANG, SUK CHOO; NISHIZONO, MASAHISA

• ISBN13: 9780824828547
• ISBN10: 0824828542
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-05-15
• Publisher: Univ of Hawaii Pr

Summary

This volume brings to light the impact of Asian culture on psychotherapy. Scholars and clinicians from East Asia and India go beyond technical dimensions to examine culture and psychotherapy at the theoretical and philosophical levels.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
1. Asian Culture and Psychotherapy: An Overview	1	(20)
Wen-Shing Tseng, Suk Choo Chang, and Masahisa Nishizono
I. Personality and Psychopathology
2. Personality and Psychopathology: Insights from Chinese Studies	21	(19)
Fanny M. Cheung, Yiqun Gan, and Poman Lo
3. Culture, Psychopathology, and Psychotherapy: Changes Observed in Japan	40	(17)
Masahisa Nishizono
II. Asian Psychology: Theoretical Exploration of Parent-Child Relations
4. The Ajase Complex and Its Implications	57	(19)
Keigo Okonogi
5. Hindu Myth and Psychoanalytic Concepts: The Ganesha Complex	76	(9)
Sudhir Kakar
6. Prohibition against Looking: Analysis of Japanese Mythology and Folktales	85	(13)
Osamu Kitayama
7. The Oedipus Complex as Reflected in Asian Cultural Products	98	(31)
Wen-Shing Tseng, Kwang-lel Kim, and Jing Hsu
III. Traditional Thought, Philosophy, and Psychotherapy
8. Confucian Thought: Implications for Psychotherapy	129	(13)
Yan Heqin
9. Daoist Philosophy: Application in Psychotherapy	142	(14)
Dersen Young, Wen-Shing Tseng, and Liang Zhou
10. Buddhist Teaching: Relation to Healing	156	(13)
Suk Choo Chang and Rhee Dong-Shick
IV. Unique Psychotherapeutic Approach from Asian Culture
11. The Philosophical Background of Morita Therapy: Its Application to Therapy	169	(17)
Kenji Kitanishi
12. Japanese Buddhist Thought and Naikan Therapy	186	(13)
Ryuzo Kawahara
13. Application of Proverbs in Psychotherapy: Asian Experience	199	(13)
Wen-Shing Tseng, Jing Hsu, Keisuke Ebata, S. Peter Kim, and Oksuk Mary Kim
14. An Asian Way of Healing: The Psychology of Meditation	212	(13)
Suk Choo Chang
V. Psychotherapeutic Experiences from Asia
15. Culture-Relevant Psychotherapy in Korea: Clinical Insight	225	(14)
Kwang-Iel Kim
16. Culture and Psychotherapy in Korea: Past and Present	239	(10)
Suk Choo Chang
17. The Historical Trends of Psychotherapy in China: Cultural Review	249	(16)
Wen-Shing Tseng, Sing Lee, and Lü Qiuyun
18. Integration and Application for Therapy	265	(16)
Wen-Shing Tseng
Glossary	281	(6)
References	287	(20)
Contributors	307	(4)
Index	311