[Symposium 84] At a cultural crossroads in our time

[SY-84-03] Psychotherapy as an encounter of strangers

*ShinIchiro Otsuka

Keywords:

stranger,personal psychotherapy,cross-cultural encounter

Within the collective Japanese culture, psychotherapists are still somewhat strangers. And nowadays we see many clients from different cultural backgrounds. This makes the experience of psychotherapy an encounter from stranger to stranger. I'd like to discuss the uniqueness and the meaning of personal psychotherapy in Japanese culture.