The Quiet Therapies: Japanese Pathways to Personal Growth

by David K. Reynolds

Book Overview

"A provocative but balanced book that will be of great interest for all concerned with Japan, religiously based therapies, and the cure of nervous disorders, it may challenge one's assumptions about such notions as the nature of 'self' as well as provide insight into life, suffering, and happiness." --Religious Studies Review "The descriptions of the various therapies are informative, vivid, and engaging." --Contemporary Psychology "The penetrating account given in an afterword by George DeVos delineates the important psychological differences between Americans and Japanese that render Western psychoanalysis inapplicable to the Japanese scene." --Journal of the American Medical Association "Will undoubtedly become a landmark in comparative psychiatry and social anthropology." --American Journal of Psychiatry

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0824808010
• ISBN13: 9780824808013
• Release Date: March 1982
• Publisher: University of Hawaii Press
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Hikikomori Beware, or The Diet Book for Anorexics

A haunting book for me now these twenty plus years I bought it at a woman's bookstore in Boulder, Colorado. There are, incidentally, real lessons in this book for those dealing with hikikomori dilemmas in particular. As a dyed in the wool occidental, this book showed me another path to happiness after years of largely inneffective mainstream style therapy. My subsequent search for my own path was greatly facilitated by the exposure to this thoughtful book. A long and detailed review would betray the book's message--look within, listen within, and in the silence your own voice will emerge. This book offers thoughtful examples, methods and case histories of the use of quiet therapies. The best music gives silence a pitch; likewise the best thoughts. Enjoy.