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Travel the natural flowing water of A River to Live By to gain a more powerful and holistic lifeway Learn the 12 basic life principles of Morita therapy Dr. Brian Ogawa shares the most important principles of an internationally practiced therapeutic approach to an optimal life energized with openness, spontaneity, and gratitude. With a foundation in traditional Eastern philosophy and modern Japanese psychiatry, Morita therapy has proven to be transcultural, timeless, and universal for achieving healthy relationships, productive self-discipline, and personal meaning. The river analogy has long been a symbol of the movement toward wellbeing. Dr. Ogawa beautifully presents the 12 Morita principles as the dependable currents to a successful life.
Directed to victims of domestic assault, this volume describes the feelings experienced by many women who are in relationships involving physical and psychological abuse and presents specific ways in which a woman can realistically and responsibly respond to the violence. The text uses the personal accounts of women who have been in abusive relationships and the approaches to suffering and recovery involved in the principles of Morita and Naikan therapies. Individual sections focus on the characteristics of a good relationship, effective ways of handling emotions, the decision to leave a relationship, and methods of surviving the past and starting life over again. The text also explains appreciation and respect, redirection, making choices, expectations, and building a partnership in a new relationship. The discussion rests on the view that no woman should live in fear or experience violent behavior.
Desire for Life: The Practitioner’s Introduction to Morita Therapy for the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders summarizes key therapeutic goals and methods for applying Morita Therapy to counseling persons experiencing severe anxiety-related disorders, including general anxiety, panic attacks, obsessive-compulsive behaviors, phobias, posttraumatic stress, and hypochondria. This book is a concise and authoritative guide for those who want to incorporate Morita Therapy into their professional practice or teaching of Eastern counseling approaches. The hallmarks of Morita Therapy are holistic well-being, contextual healing, and integrative intervention. This book presents these elements to benefit practitioners and instructors in psychology, counseling, social work, education, human services, medicine, and allied health.
This book written for multidisciplinary child protection teams and presents guidelines for identification, assessment and case management on various forms of child maltreatment.
This book is the first to discuss experiences of the Morita and Naikan ways of life in the Western World. Although Morita and Naikan are therapies--perspectives on neurotic habits and their correction--the vision is educational rather than medical. The approach offers a way of acknowledging feelings while engaging in constructive living. With roots in Zen, the principles of this constructive living were formulated over 80 years ago by Shoma Morita, a Japanese psychiatrist. Like Zen, these principles are thoroughly grounded in the reality of the here and now. Morita's methods are aimed at the person who suffers from anxiety, shyness, phobias, and obsessions that often manifest in physical sym...
When Hate Groups March Down Main Street is a comprehensive, authoritative resource guide for communities, organizations, and individuals who are concerned and intimidated by the resurgence of neo-Nazi and extreme right-wing groups in the United States. Communities have often been caught flat-footed when confronting neo-Nazi and far right-wing extremists. This book examines how hate groups act and what motivates them and discusses, using case studies and community resources, how to equip communities to successfully respond to these incursions.
This book is the English Edition of Mari Iwata’s original Japanese language book, MORITA SHOMA GA KATARU MORITA RYOHO. To constrain Morita Therapy to a mingling of Dr. Shoma Morita’s ideas from basic texts distorts its essence. Proficiency is through studying Dr. Morita himself, as he authenticated his therapeutic design. Hence, the intention of this book is not to specifically render Dr. Morita’s biography but elucidate the inextricable bond between therapist and therapy. Respect for the character and brilliance of Morita Therapy’s originator lends toward preserving the therapy’s integrity and conveying its significance.
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