Invitation

JAPAN IN ANALYSIS: CULTURES OF THE UNCONSCIOUS is the title of a new book written by Professor Ian Parker. He presented three key questions in his introduction of the book; “Why is there psychoanalysis in Japan?”; “What do we learn about Japan from its own forms of analysis?”; and “What do we learn about ourselves from Japan?”

Practicing Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy in Japan, Professor Hidefumi Kotani recently wrote an original article striving to identify the fundamental qualities essential to new theories and techniques of psychotherapy that are badly needed by contemporary people struggling to survive in our modern, alienated, and competitive global societies. In this symposium two professors and psychotherapists from the West and the East will encounter one another. Professor Kotani will introduce young and active psychotherapists who are practicing and developing modern techniques of psychoanalytic or analytic psychotherapy in Japan and will invite the participation of discussants comprising international colleagues from England, Austria, Israel, the U.S.A. and, of course, Japan.

Panelist

“School Counseling on the Basis of Psychoanalytic Systems Theory”

Kaoru Nishimura, Associate Professor, ICU Graduate School

“Ground Matrix, Space Making and Analysis in the Psychotherapy Process of a Japanese Adult Woman”

Masahiro Nishikawa, Associate Professor, ICU Graduate School

“A Jungian Practice in Japan ”

Masamichi Adachi, Instructor, ICU Graduate School

“Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy for Difficult Youth in Japan”

Kazunori Hashimoto, Counselor, The University of Tokyo

Discussants

From a Freudian Viewpoint

Felix de Mendelssohn, Professor, Sigmund Freud University

From a Relational Viewpoint

Robi Friedman, Training Chair, International Association for Group Psychotherapy

From the Viewpoint of Student Counseling

Noriaki Tomabechi, President, Japanese Association of Student Counseling

From the Viewpoint of Developmental Theory

Erica Burman, Professor, Manchester Metropolitan University

From the Viewpoint of Female Development

Tomoko A. James, ICU Institute for Advanced Studies of Clinical Psychology

From the Viewpoint of Cultural Competence

Jean Lau Chin, Dean, The G.F. Derner Institute of Advanced Psychological Studies

Comments and Summary

Japan in Analysis: Culture of the Unconscious

Ian Parker

Individual within a Group: New Way of Being from Intersection of the Self and the Ego

Hidefumi Kotani

contact:

Division of Education, Graduate School

International Christian University

3-10-2 Osawa, Mitaka-shi, Tokyo, Japan

Tel & Fax:+81(0)422-33-3655, E-mail: iascp@icu.ac.jp