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A psychotherapy of neurosis, Morita therapy.

Yonago Acta Med. 1970 Feb;14(1):1-17

Authors: Miura M, Usa S

PMID: 5450394 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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[Home therapy for neuroses, with special reference to the Morita therapy]

Kango Gijutsu. 1969 Dec;12:89-95

Authors: Mizutani K, Aoki S

PMID: 5197513 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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[The Morita therapy for neuroses and associated nursing care]

Kango Gijutsu. 1969 Dec;12:82-8

Authors: Fukui T

PMID: 5197512 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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[Morita-therapy–a Japanese psychotherapy method–and its social and psychiatric implications]

Z Psychother Med Psychol. 1966 Sep;16(5):161-72

Authors: Suzuki T, Takemura S

PMID: 5976086 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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[The Japanese Morita therapy from the viewpoint of personal psychotherapeutic procedures]

Arch Psychiatr Nervenkr. 1965 Nov 22;207(3):185-95

Authors: Leonhard K

PMID: 5888063 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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[A follow-up of neurotics treated by inpatient Morita therapy (author’s transl)]

Seishin Shinkeigaku Zasshi. 1979;81(10):666-78

Authors: Suzuki T, Suzuki R

PMID: 531116 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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Emotional behavior and the brain.

Psychother Psychosom. 1979;31(1-4):156-60

Authors: Nakao H

Basic behaviors were defined as those controlled by the hypothalamus, and emotion and instinct were defined as the drives of such behaviors. A learning method showed that fear-escape is obtained from the medial hypothalamic area except for the ventromedial nucleus. It was suggested that some neural systems responsible for threat, attack, rush and retreat are overlapped in the ventromedial nucleus. Functions of the amygdala and the septum were discussed in relation to hypothalamic activity in emotional behavior. A behavioral sequence composed of stimulation, classical conditioning, drive, reward learning and behavior was discussed, and learning, anxiety in neuroses and Morita therapy were examined from the viewpoint of the behavioral sequence.

PMID: 482534 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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[Japanese methods of psychotherapy and their socio-cultural determinants. Impressions from Japan together with a report on the IV Congress of the International College of Psychosomatic Medicine, Sept. 5–9, 1977 in Kyoto]

Z Psychosom Med Psychoanal. 1978 Jul-Sep;24(3):238-84

Authors: Schepank H

Impressions of a congress-visiting-journey through the highly-industrialized far-east Japan are the background for description of specific Japanese Psychotherapeutic-technics f.i.: the Morita-therapy, Naikan-therapy and the Fasten-therapy. To the analytically trained Psychosomatic-specialist of western mentality those medical applications appear rather bewildering if not frightening. Their psychodynamic and their effectiveness become more understandable regarding the social-cultural conditions in modern Japan founded and grown on a tradition thousands of years old. Psychoanalysis can’t prosper there. During the congress of the ICPM (International College of Psychosomatic Medicine) in Kyoto it became evident to the author by visits to clinics and above all by experience of typical Japanese travelling impressions, how much just psychotherapy and it’s special drive-dynamical intentions are to a major degree depending on social-cultural development, the norms of value, the religion and the philosophy of a society.–Nippon is unique–strange and fascinating.

PMID: 29398 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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Morita therapy and behaviour therapy.

Behav Res Ther. 1974 Nov;12(4):347-53

Authors: Gibson HB

PMID: 4447572 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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Morita therapy.

Am J Psychother. 1974 Apr;28(2):208-21

Authors: Chang SC

PMID: 4829701 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]

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