Morita therapy combined with psychotherapy for the relief of mental anxiety disorders in design workers
Authors: Sun Yinyin , Li Zhaoping , Zhang Xinyuan 
Published: March 2023

Background

Morita therapy, as a treatment for mental illness, aims to enable patients to accept their bad emotions so that they can effectively self-direct and regulate themselves, no longer be controlled by bad emotions, and ultimately eliminate their mental illness. Positive thinking refers to the individual’s purposeful, non-judgmental attention to the here and now. It emphasizes an attitude of acceptance to observe the inner experience, emotion, or behavior in the present moment. The study sought to investigate the effects of Morita therapy combined with positive thinking psychotherapy on the alleviation of mental anxiety disorders in design workers.

Subjects and Methods

Currently, there have been relevant clinical studies showing that Morita therapy alone is not a good treatment for anxiety disorders. This experiment investigated the therapeutic effect of Morita therapy combined with positive psychotherapy. By means of questionnaires, 120 design workers with little difference in personal information but all suffering from mental anxiety disorders were selected as experimental subjects. The 120 subjects were randomly divided into three groups: subjects in group A were treated with Morita therapy combined with Shoujo psychotherapy, subjects in group B were treated with Morita therapy alone, and subjects in group C were treated with Shoujo psychotherapy alone. The whole course of treatment lasted for 3 months. The anxiety scores of the subjects before and after the experiment were recorded using the self-administered psychological anxiety scale.

Results

In group A, the number of people suffering from severe anxiety, moderate anxiety, mild anxiety, and mental health before starting the experiment was 8, 30, 2, and 0, respectively, and after the mixed treatment, the number of people under each index became 0, 0, 8 and 32, respectively. In group B, the number of people suffering from severe anxiety, moderate anxiety, mild anxiety, and mental health before starting the experiment was 8, 29, 3, and 0, respectively, and after the Morita treatment, the number became 6, 16, 15 and 3, respectively. In Group C, the number of people suffering from severe anxiety, moderate anxiety, mild anxiety, and mental health before the experiment started was 6, 30, 4, and 0, respectively, and after the positive psychotherapy, the number changed to 3, 19, 13 and 5, respectively.Table 1.

Number of people with each type of anxiety level before and after the experiment under different treatment methods

GroupSevere anxietyModerate anxietyMild anxietyMental healthGroup ANumber of people before the experiment83020Number of people after the experiment00832Group BNumber of people before the experiment82930Number of people after the experiment616153Group CNumber of people before the experiment63040Number of people after the experiment319135

Conclusions

This study demonstrates the effectiveness of Morita therapy combined with positive psychotherapy in relieving mental anxiety in design workers. The reason for this is that the operable psychological training program based on the principles of acceptance, trust, patience, and non-imposition of positive thinking training is more in line with the “let nature take its course” theory of Morita therapy, so the combination of the two therapies can play a complementary role. Therefore, the combination of the two therapies can play a complementary role.

Acknowledgement

The research is supported by: 2021 National Social Science Foundation Art Program. Social Studies of the Song Dynasty in the Prosperous Memory of the Chinese National Treasure “Picture of the River during the Qingming Festival” No. 21BG103.