Desire For Life: The Practitioner's Introduction to Morita Therapy for the Treatment of Anxiety Disorders

A bit heavy on presenting information from professional articles to clarify what Morita Therapy is, but still very informative and helpful. A must read for those interested in learning about Morita Therapy. This book influences both my life and how I help my clients.

My book was just as described and I am very pleased with my order.

Excellent

I choose this book as western mental health nurse living in japan,and hearing about Morita therapy from a japanese psychiatrist.This book caught my eye because it had the words practitioner in the title and was aimed at health professionals who wish to learn about a different approach to living well and living with mental health problems.The book is easy to read and will certainly challenge your present approach to looking after patients in our care . There are many similarities to CBT and other treatments,but this approach seems to offer something different,and also at times counter intuitive to present practice but at times logical in its approach by working with symptoms and not against symptoms which are seen as negative,and should be removed.However the author of the book has a japanese background and continually drops in japanese words which really do help in the readers understanding of what Morita therapy is about. The reader has to constantly not just remember a new concept but also words from a different language and referring to the JAPANESE as this way or that way. In reading other books .E.G CBT we don't have the author referring AMERICANS this or Americans are that, we don't read about Fraud referring to Austrians as this or Austrians as that..It kind becomes distracting and is probably more to do with the authors own japanese heritage and at times, could feels a bit hippy. He uses even the most simple japanese words like "kusuri" for medicine, sensei for teacher/doctor and a totally irrelevant.This is before he starts to use the really difficult japanese like "Tokeware" and "Toraware" when in fact he could use " repetitive/obsessional" and "mental fixation" or other native english to make the reading more comfortable and less eastern. What's more if they wish to promote this therapy/treatment in the west they would certainly do well to change some of the terms into modern english medical terms that nurses,counsellors,and doctors are already familiar with and doesn't sound too ZEN like. The NHS NICE in the UK is looking at this treatment,and I think it has a future. The present approach to measuring patients symptoms is certainly challenged by focusing more on measuring quality of life first with the result that patients see their symptoms as a force for change and not as something to fight against.i would certainly recommend this book to the practitioner who is looking for another approach for patients who are not open to other approaches especially when it comes to improving quality of life,what's more,this book isn't just about mental health,but is about living well and the practitioner may well use this approach in their daily life too.