Dissertation Research: Therapeutic Practice in Modern Japan

该项目支持一个文化的论文研究 研究妇女社会地位变化的人类学家 日本的心理问题。这些变化来自于 从传统的物理医学模式到包括心理健康在内的模式 治疗，特别是处理女权主义问题。 民族志 参与观察和深入访谈的方法将 将在三个地点使用，一个政府资助的综合 精神卫生保健中心，一个社会个案工作部门， 医院和东京女性主义治疗中心。 学生 将研究这些治疗实践如何激发女性 重新定义婚姻、育儿和工作相关的压力 社会和政治问题，而不是医疗问题。 病理学 这项研究很重要，因为它将提供的见解 不断变化的社会和心理问题 日本女性将帮助我们理解为什么这个重要的社会 对现代事件的反应。

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.