Yu-Chuan Wu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3768962 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Yu-Chuan Wu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Yu-Chuan |
| FAMILY NAME | Wu |
| SIGNATURE | WU Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | Academia Sinica, Taiwan |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hypnosis, psychoanalysis, and Morita therapy
Psychotherapy had developed into a dynamic and diverse field in pre-war Japan. Apart from thousands of spiritually oriented lay psychotherapists, there were a few quasi-professional practitioners who insisted on a rational approach and experimented with a variety of psychotherapeutic methods. Among them was Kokyō Nakamura, whose quest for a viable psychotherapeutic method is intriguing and illuminating. This paper examines the evolution of Nakamu…
Techniques for nothingness
This paper explores a debate that took place in Japan in the early twentieth century over the comparability of hypnosis and Zen. The debate was among the first exchanges between psychology and Buddhism in Japan, and it cast doubt on previous assumptions that a clear boundary existed between the two fields. In the debate, we find that contemporaries readily incorporated ideas from psychology and Buddhism to reconstruct the experiences and concepts…
Straighten the Back to Sit
A Disorder of Qi
Neurasthenia became a common disease and caused widespread concern in Japan at the turn of the twentieth century, whereas only a couple of decades earlier the term "nerve" had been unfamiliar, if not unknown, to many Japanese. By exploring the theories and practices of breathing exercise-one of the most popular treatments for neurasthenia at the time-this paper attempts to understand how people who practiced breathing exercises for their nervous …
Disappearing Anger
This article provides a historical analysis of a psychological experiment on anger conducted on Taiwanese aborigines in the late colonial period by a Japanese psychologist. Viewed within its immediate and historical colonial contexts, the experiment was predicated on and in fact was an extension of actual colonial relations; the anger of the aboriginal subjects against the colonizer-psychologist, which had been disguised from the latter, led to t…
Techniques for nothingness
This paper explores a debate that took place in Japan in the early twentieth century over the comparability of hypnosis and Zen. The debate was among the first exchanges between psychology and Buddhism in Japan, and it cast doubt on previous assumptions that a clear boundary existed between the two fields. In the debate, we find that contemporaries readily incorporated ideas from psychology and Buddhism to reconstruct the experiences and concepts…
A Disorder of Qi
Neurasthenia became a common disease and caused widespread concern in Japan at the turn of the twentieth century, whereas only a couple of decades earlier the term "nerve" had been unfamiliar, if not unknown, to many Japanese. By exploring the theories and practices of breathing exercise-one of the most popular treatments for neurasthenia at the time-this paper attempts to understand how people who practiced breathing exercises for their nervous …
Disappearing Anger
This article provides a historical analysis of a psychological experiment on anger conducted on Taiwanese aborigines in the late colonial period by a Japanese psychologist. Viewed within its immediate and historical colonial contexts, the experiment was predicated on and in fact was an extension of actual colonial relations; the anger of the aboriginal subjects against the colonizer-psychologist, which had been disguised from the latter, led to t…
Straighten the Back to Sit
A Disorder of Qi
Neurasthenia became a common disease and caused widespread concern in Japan at the turn of the twentieth century, whereas only a couple of decades earlier the term "nerve" had been unfamiliar, if not unknown, to many Japanese. By exploring the theories and practices of breathing exercise-one of the most popular treatments for neurasthenia at the time-this paper attempts to understand how people who practiced breathing exercises for their nervous …
Techniques for nothingness
This paper explores a debate that took place in Japan in the early twentieth century over the comparability of hypnosis and Zen. The debate was among the first exchanges between psychology and Buddhism in Japan, and it cast doubt on previous assumptions that a clear boundary existed between the two fields. In the debate, we find that contemporaries readily incorporated ideas from psychology and Buddhism to reconstruct the experiences and concepts…
Hypnosis, psychoanalysis, and Morita therapy
Psychotherapy had developed into a dynamic and diverse field in pre-war Japan. Apart from thousands of spiritually oriented lay psychotherapists, there were a few quasi-professional practitioners who insisted on a rational approach and experimented with a variety of psychotherapeutic methods. Among them was Kokyō Nakamura, whose quest for a viable psychotherapeutic method is intriguing and illuminating. This paper examines the evolution of Nakamu…
Psychology (4 works) · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology (3 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Alternative medicine (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · History (2 works) · Hypnosis (2 works) · Psychoanalysis (2 works) · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices (2 works)