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Teaching Clinical Listening at the Institute of Grief Care of Sophia University
Get PDFWe all experience loss and bereavement in our lives. We lose family members, pets, friends, precious items, our status, and at the end, ourselves. We are all destined to lose precious things when we are born. However, it is difficult to attend to a person who is about to experience serious loss. Sometimes we fail to visit our terminally ill friends in the hospital because we are afraid to see their suffering.
The acquisition of Clinical Listening, a semi-professional and nondenominational listening attitude, based on Clinical Pastoral Education, is what our Institute offers for people in this predicament. We suggest our students become aware of themselves by listening to each other in small groups. Their own experience of being well-listened to in training is helpful for them to learn how the experience of being well-listened feels. The formation of such attitudes is helpful not only for human care professionals, but also for citizens interested in care.
In this essay, first, I suggest that to remember the loss is crucial to partial recovery. Second, I briefly explain the process of the founding of the Institute of Grief Care at Sophia University, and its training program. I then compare the idea and practice of Clinical Pastoral Education and clinical psychology to understand the former better. Recent developments in clinical psychology encourages us to be conscious of the cognitive discrepancies of not only those being cared for but also the caregiver. To know oneself should be the foundation of Clinical Listening.departmental bulletin pape
The Era When Human Bodies are Treated as Resources
Get PDFIn October 2021, it was reported that an experiment to transplant a genetically modified pig kidney to a human was successful at the Langone Transplant Institute of New York University in Manhattan, New York, USA. This xenotransplantation experiment encapsulates various problems surrounding humans in modern medicine. Among these problems, I will discuss topics such as the deceptiveness of the concept of brain death, how human bodies are treated as resources, the modern social system of packaging knowledge that makes utilization of these resources possible, the courage to fail in the process of developing transplants, and the creation of new biological materials by genetic modification. This paper will point out the need for social discussions about the current state of technology and its future.departmental bulletin pape
Exploring the Possibilities of Spiritual Care from the Japanese Concept of "Ikigai": An Overview of Research on "Ikigai" from 2015 to 2021, Domestic and International Research Trends since 1945, and a Perspective for Future Research Developments
Get PDF“Ikigai” has been attracting attention from overseas since mid-2010. In Japan, ikigai has attracted particular attention since the publication of “On ikigai” by the psychiatrist Kamiya Mieko in 1966.
The first part of this article shows research trends from 2015 to 2021, focusing on “ikigai” for the elderly. The second part re-analyzes the research trends of “ikigai” (in Japanese) and “ikigai” (in Roman letters) reported by Hasegawa (2020), by using Hasegawa’s methodology. It also discusses the research trends on this word in Japan and abroad before and after World War II until December 2021.
The third part presents some thoughts on the possible characteristics of “ikigai” based on the etymology of the word. This part also introduces clinical dohsa therapy method as an approach to support the “ikigai,” which utilizes psychotherapy as a means to emphasize the individuality of the purpose of life. The article closes by discussing clinical dohsa therapy in relation to spiritual care.departmental bulletin pape
The Regeneration of Space of Landscape: Where Experiencing is Maintained
Get PDFThe crisis of the Corona disaster shakes the way our minds make sense of events as experiences. This study focuses on the transformation of the quality of our spatial experiences during the Corona disaster, showing that it affects the way people form the basis of their experiences, and explores pathways to recovery. As a clue, we focus on the concept of “Landschaftlicher/Space of Landscape,” proposed by psychopathologist Erwin Straus, and examine the characteristics of this space. Space of Landscape is a unique space with sensory experiences that overlap with, but are not reducible to, perceptually perceived geographic space. In contrast to geographic space, which is measurable, Space of Landscape is a variable space that is constructed at any moment according to the way we are and the way we interact with the world. In this study, the characteristics of this space are discussed with reference to some classical theories in clinical psychology such as Nakai Hisao’s distinction between projective space and cons ructive space, the dynamic relationship between intimacy and unfamiliarity in Kimura Bin’s theory of Aida, and Vygotsky’s theorization on the formation of the field of sense. In conclusion, two points are drawn: 1) Space of Landscape supports the foundation of people’s experience of events themselves, and 2) the practice of talking between people who are beside each other cultivates and maintains the Space of Landscape. In addition, it is suggested that there is something transcendental, or spiritual, intervening and recurring in the experience, which makes the experience itself possible.departmental bulletin pape
