From: garym@MAYA.ISIS.ORG ((Gary Lawrence Murphy))
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Subject: RE: Multicultural Counseling
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First and foremost, since I am not a student using a school account
but paying a fee for my connect time, I may not be able to stay on
this list if the volume gets too high.  I am a student in a sense that
I am studying the Japanese "Quiet" therapies with Joan Shikai Woodward
in Ottawa, and while this is not perhaps exactly what was requested, I
did find this wonderful welcome as my first bit of mail from this
list:

In <92Oct13.183112edt.10491@mail.uunet.ca> (CASE ELIZABETH ) writes:
>
> We had a lot of in services on multi-ethnic counselling, but not on
> religious.  That's a good point.  I might emphasize from personal experience
> that you don't ignore less common religions, such as Bhuddism and Paganism
>
> Elizabeth
> psygrddec@orion.depaul.edu

In the interest of education for those of you in the counselling side
of psychology, I'd like to burden this list with some references on
the "quiet" therapies, namely the Naikan (as mentioned in this
morning's (Wed Oct 15) Globe and Mail Social Studies column),
developed for secular use by Yashimoto, and the methods of the great
Japanese psychiatrist Dr. Morita Masetake.  These are known here in
the west through the writings of Dr. David K. Reynolds.

Please keep in mind this is not pop-psychology but a well developed
discipline with over 70 years of clinical research and practice and
some 2600 years of Buddhist psychology before that.  This is also
nothing peculiar to the Japanese or Oriental psyche as evidenced by
the rapid growth in  interest here in North America, in Europe and in
Australia.  Morita's methods require no beliefs, nor do these methods
even require the client trust his therapist; all that is required is
the effort, and the neuroscientists among you may find that feature
most interesting.

What follows is a selected list of western (english-language) journal
references for the Japanese Morita and Naikan psychotherapies; I have
more if you need them, even some Japanese references (including those
of Morita himself), and the popular press (even Psych Today ... even
COSMO! :-)

Ishiyama, F.I. "A Case of Severe Test Anxiety Treated in Morita
Therapy: Acceptance and Not Fighting It." Canadian Counsellor 17,
172-174, 1983

Ishiyama, F.I. "Shyness: Anxious Social Sensitivity and Self Isolating
Tendency" Adolescence 19, 903-911, 1984

Ishiyama, F.I. "Brief Morita Therapy on Social Anxiety: A Single Case
Study of Theraputic Changes" Canadian Journal of Counselling 20,
56-65, 1986a

Ishiyama, F.I. "Morita Therapy: Its Basic Features and Cognitive
Intervention for Anxiety Treatment." Psychotherapy 23, 375-381, 1986b

Ishiyama, F.I. "Positive Reinterpretation of Fear of Death: A Japanese
(Morita) Psychotherapy Approach to Anxiety Treatment" Psychotherapy
23, 556-562, 1986c

Ishiyama, F.I. "Use of Morita Therapy in Shyness Counseling in the
West: Promoting Clients' Self-Acceptance and Action Taking" Journal of
Counseling and Development 65, 547-551, 1987

Kondo, Akihisa "Morita Therapy: A Japanses Therapy for Neurosis"
American Journal of Psychoanalysis 13, 31-37, 1953

McGee, Richard K --review-- Contemporary Psychology 31(10) 750-751, 1986

Mills, C.W. "Situated Actions and ocabularies of Motive" American
Sociological Review 5, 904-915, 1940

Reynolds, David K "Morita Psychotherapy" Handbook of Inovative
Psychotherapies, ed. R. Corsini, pp 489-501. New York, Wiley 1981

Reynolds, David K "Naikan Psychotherapy" Handbook of Inovative
Psychotherapies, ed. R. Corsini, pp 544-553. New York, Wiley 1981

What follows is my world-famous blurb on "Constructive Living":

Constructive Living is a fusion of Japanese Morita and Naikan
therapies, originating with Dr. Morita Shoma, a contemporary of Freud,
and the Zen lay-priest Yashimoto, and recently imported and developed
for western audiences by Dr. David K. Reynolds.  CL differs from our
traditional Freudian-Jungian-Gestalt approaches in many key respects
which is gaining the technique a rapid acceptance across the western
world.  In CL, how you feel is important as a sensation, but
irrelevant to what you _do_ and who you are.  In a nutshell, CL
advocates we (1) accept our feelings (2) know our purpose and (3) do
what needs to be done.

For those interested in Constructive Living, the following lists all
of the related books by Dr. David K. Reynolds with publisher and date:

        Playing Ball on Running Water, Morrow, 1984
        Even in Summer the Ice Doesn't Melt, Morrow, 1986
        Water Bears No Scars, Morrow, 1987
        Constructive Living, Univ. Hawaii Press, 1984
        Pools of Lodging for the Moon, Morrow, 1989
        A Thousand Waves, Morrow, 1990
        The Quiet Therapies, Univ. Hawaii Press, 1980
        Thirsty, Swimming in the Lake, Morrow, 1991
        Morita Psychotherapy, Univ Calif Press, 1976
        Naikan Psychotherapy, Chicago Press, 1983
        Flowing Bridges, Quiet Waters, SUNY Press 1989

The first eight books are practical and concrete.  The last three are
more academic. All contain bibliographies that lead to articles by a
variety of authors.  Books and audio tapes are also available from
Gregg Krech at Music and Sound Production Services, 1908 S. Randolf
St. Arlington VA 22204, Tel: (703) 892-6615

Each year Dr. Reynolds and/or selected advanced certified instructors
off training in New York, Washington DC, San Francisco, Cleveland and
elsewhere. Topics include an introduction to Morita and Naikan
instruction, perspectives on personality, theory and practice of these
methods, adaptations for Westerners, fables and maxims as teaching
devices, role playing practice, the use of exercises and assignments,
the merging of Morita and Naikan in Constructive Living and a
comparison of these methods with Western psychotherapies.

If you wish further details on CL training schedules, other resources,
the quarterly newsletter "nothing special", or the international
Bulletin of Morita Therapy, please contact me through this forum or
through garym@maya.isis.org.

--
Gary Lawrence Murphy -- garym@maya.isis.org -- (613) 230-6255
  279 Fifth Avenue -- Ottawa -- Ontario -- Canada -- K1S 2N4
 "Rely on reality, not a person or a system or a thought." --- Morita