Chikako Ozawa-De Silva

Psychotherapy and Religion in Japan (eBook, ePUB)

The Japanese Introspection Practice of Naikan

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Based on original anthropological fieldwork, this fascinating book provides a detailed ethnography of Naikan in practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 27. September 2006
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134305308
• Artikelnr.: 47884830

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