Dissertation Research: Therapeutic Practice in Modern Japan

该项目支持一位文化人类学家的论文研究，研究日本妇女社会和心理问题定义的变化。这些变化是从传统的物理-医学模式转变为包括心理健康治疗的模式，专门处理女权主义问题。参与观察和深度访谈的民族志方法将在三个地点使用，即政府资助的综合精神卫生保健中心、一家医院的社会个案工作部和东京女权主义治疗中心。学生将研究这些治疗实践如何促使女性将婚姻、育儿和工作相关问题的压力重新定义为社会和政治问题，而不是医学病理。这项研究之所以重要，是因为它将为我们提供关于日本女性面临的不断变化的社会和心理问题的洞察力，有助于我们理解为什么这个重要的社会会对现代事件做出这样的反应。

This project supports the dissertation research of a cultural anthropologist studying the changing definition of womens' social and psychological problems in Japan. The changes are from a traditional physical-medical model to one including mental health therapy, specifically dealing with feminist issues. Ethnographic methods of participant observation and in-depth interviews will be used in three locations, a government-funded comprehensive mental health care center, a social casework department of a hospital, and the Tokyo feminist therapy center. The student will examine how these therapeutic practices provoke women to redefine stresses from marital, child-rearing, and work-related issues as social and political problems, rather then as medical pathologies. This research is important because the insight it will provide about the changing social and psychological issues confronting Japanese women will help us understand why this important society reacts as it does to modern events.