Ohtsuki Kenji and the Beginnings of Lay Analysis in Japan
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8970996 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Geoffrey H Blowers (University of Hong Kong, corresponding author), Geoffrey Blowers (Hong Kong), Serena Yang Hsueh Chi (Hong Kong), Serena Yang Hsueh |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 27-42 |
| Publication date | 2001-02-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | The International Journal of Psychoanalysis (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0020-7578 • E-ISSN: 1745-8315 |
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1516/mdpb-5qul-vccy-veug |
| PMID | 11234111 |
| OpenAlex | W2111172671, W4236836625 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 5 |
The authors outline the major role played by Ohtsuki Kenji in the formation of the Japanese Psychoanalytic Society. Unlike the other pioneers of psychoanalysis in Japan, Ohtsuki never went abroad or met Freud. He was a literature graduate who taught himself the fundamentals of psychoanalysis. He organised the translation of Freud's complete works, formed a psychoanalytic training institute and started a journal that carried English‐language editorials. These became the major means whereby foreign analysts came to know and understand the Japanese psychoanalytic scene. A number of rival groups amalgamated to form the Japanese Psychoanalytical Association in the mid‐fifties, excluding Ohtsuki's group despite its pre‐war prominence. The authors reconsider Ohtsuki's role in the light of his many articles, his autobiography, new information uncovered in interviews conducted with current analysts and with Ohtsuki's widow and son. They describe his championing of lay analysis, and his criticisms of medicalisation of the discipline and of the view from abroad that questioned the suitability of Japanese culture for psychoanalytic therapy, as well as his efforts to modify some of the basic tenets of psychoanalysis to accord with his own views in his later work
Art history · Biography · Psychoanalysis · Psychoanalytic theory · Sociology · Academic and Historical Perspectives in Psychology · Historical Psychiatry and Medical Practices · History · Medical History and Research · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
| Citations per year | 0.08 |
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| Citation span | 2014 - 2014 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |