Christopher Harding is Lecturer in Asian History in the School of History, Classics and Archaeology, University of Edinburgh, UK

Iwata Fumiaki is Professor in the Department of Social Science Education, Osaka Kyoiku University, Japan

Yoshinaga Shin'ichi is Associate Professor at the Maizuru National College of Technology, Japan

Introduction 1. Religion and Psychotherapy in Modern Japan: A Four-Phase View 2. Psychiatry and Religion in Modern Japan: Traditional Temple and Shrine Therapies 3. The Birth of Japanese Mind Cure Methods 4. The Mind and Healing in Morita Therapy 5. The Dawning of Japanese Psychoanalysis: Kosawa Heisaku's Therapy and Faith 6. Doi Takeo and the Development of the 'Amae' Theory 7. From Salvation to Healing: Yoshimoto Naikan Therapy and its Religious Origins 8. Naikan and Mourning: A Catholic Attempt at Naikan Meditation 9. Hayao Kawai's Transnational Identity and Japanese Spirit 10. The Contemporary View of Reincarnation in Japan: Narratives of the Reincarnating Self 11. A Society Accepting of Spirit Possession: Mental Health and Shamanism in Okinawa 12. Chaplaincy Work in Disaster Areas 13. Conclusion

This book provides a historically contextualized introduction to the dialogue between religion and psychotherapy in modern Japan. In doing so, it draws out connections between developments in medicine, government policy, Japanese religion and spirituality, social and cultural criticism, regional dynamics and gender relations. Religion and Psychotherapy in Modern Japan will be welcomed by students and scholars working across a broad range of subjects, including Japanese culture and society, religious studies, psychology and psychotherapy, mental health and international history.