• Lehel Balogh.
• Department of Cultural Diversity Studies, Laboratory of Cultural Anthropology, Hokkaido University, Sapporo, Japan.
• J Eval Clin Pract. 2023 Oct 1; 29 (7): 122212271222-1227.

AbstractMorita therapy is one of the leading alternative psychotherapeutic approaches that has emerged from Japan and has adapted with notable success to the mores and demands of the Western medical establishment. Although still on the margin, Morita therapy has the potential to offer a viable option for those who seek therapeutic assistance for various neuroses and psychosomatic illnesses that culminate in psychiatric symptoms such as generalized anxiety disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder, or posttraumatic stress disorder. Diverging considerably from conventional Western psychiatric approaches, Morita therapy has its own modes of conceiving mental illness and offers distinct curative methods that are in some ways akin to the techniques of meaning-centred psychotherapies, but in many other ways are rather different. In this paper, the meaning-formation and the building of a constant sense of purpose in Morita therapy is explored, with a special focus on how these relate to creating a stable psychological framework for the client.© 2023 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.

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