Naikan Therapy—an Experiential View

David K. Reynolds
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David K. Reynolds: Department of Human Behaviour University of Southern California School of Medicine

International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 1977, vol. 23, issue 4, 252-263

Abstract: Naikan therapy is a form of directed meditation practised in Japan with reported positive effect on some neuroses, psychosomatic disorders and delinquency problems. It aims at reconstructing the client's view of his past in order to reshape his attitudes and behaviours in the present. Experiential research supplements the usual outsider participant observer perspective with personal experience in roles that exist within the setting—in this case the researcher became a patient and then a therapist as well as an outside observer.

Date: 1977
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DOI: 10.1177/002076407702300404

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