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Permissiveness Towards the Imperfections Of Human Nature in Psychotherapy
Author(s) -
Yamaguchi Takashi
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
psychiatry and clinical neurosciences
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.609
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1440-1819
pISSN - 1323-1316
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1819.1973.tb02660.x
Subject(s) - permissiveness , empathy , psychotherapist , permissive , psychology , psychoanalysis , reality therapy , psychiatry , medicine , virus , virology , viral replication
SUMMARY First, focus was placed on the Japanese social permissiveness of imperfections of human nature, which placed emphases on the interrelationship between social and therapeutic “permissiveness.” Second, the importance of the omnipresent needs for love, food, and, of the psychotherapist's empathy of these needs, within the permissive psychotherapeutic approach, was illustrated by using two Japanese case presentations. Third, Kobayashi psychotherapy was introduced to highlight the particular significance of “permissiveness” in psychotherapy. Fourth, in order to emphasize the relevant possible universal application of the permissive approach in dynamic psychotherapy, an American case was reviewed. Finally, it was stressed that the essential core of psychotherapy seemed to be complementary empathic communication between the therapist and the patient as simply human beings, of their imperfect human nature, as it is, or “ningen‐mi,” as natural as possible. (Case I was presented to Dr. T. Doi's Seminar on Psychotherapy at Tokyo University on May 6, 1971; and Case 2 was discussed in a paper on brief psychotherapy read at the 82nd Kanto Regional Meeting of the Japanese Society of Psychiatry and Neurology on March 17, 1973.)