Domestic Violence Therapy Japan
Last night was our monthly Men’s Cooking. Three women and four men joined us for an homey gathering. The menu was Chinese, including Chinese rice bowl, Chinese chilled tofu, egg drop soup, spinach namul, and radish cake. The menu was common, but all the dishes were of a special grade, as elegant and rich as …
The topic of yesterday’s Osaka workshop and the one before that at Men’s workshop was “My Rules”. The idea was to sort out the behavioral norms that we are hardly aware of into “My Rules, Family Rules, and Social Rules” and share them with others. By separating the norms that apply to you alone, the …
Family conflicts, domestic violence, moral harassment… Every family has some kind of problem, more or less. Although it may seem like a happy family, someone is going through a hard time, or they are just living together without communicating. These people come to me with feelings that they can’t talk about with others. These people …
My counseling is based on Rogers’ Person-Centered Therapy, while adopting some psychoanalytic and cognitive-behavioral approaches, but mainly a narrative approach, like talking therapy, which leads me to my own Men’s Therapy. Men’s therapy or Men’s counseling does not mean counseling for men. It refers to therapy based on Men’s studies. Neither the therapist nor the …
There are many different kinds of medications for anxieties, but basically it is all about regulating the flow of substances in the synapses of the brain’s nerves with medicines. But the problem is that the anxiety returns when the pharmacological effect expires, so we have to keep taking them and when we keep taking them, …
Yesterday, I had my monthly Yoyogi workshop session. The first mini-lecture in the morning was about “Family functions and therapy”. I started by talking about how the men’s movement has been involved in supporting men or women, going back thirty years ago when I started Japan’s first men’s movement with my companions, and how men’s …
Today’s meeting was our once every three months case study meeting, and we had ten members, including Skype. After each of the recent updates, the dialogue proceeded with case studies. As usual, several cases of domestic violence and moral harassment in married couples were discussed. They also talked about the issue of separation, which is …
Any de-violence program for perpetrators has a power structure built into it. And it’s not just perpetrator programs; it’s all forms of therapy. Those being treated, those treating, those being listened to, those listening, those listening, those being guided, those guiding… they are all troubled persons and the supporters trying to solve their problems… more …
Today was my first run in three weeks. Unlike last time, the temperature was 29 degrees, which is a big difference of 7 degrees, but I’m pretty low on fitness to begin with, so it doesn’t matter what the temperature is, I’m not speeding. It’s just fast enough to walk. I walked and ran from …
The modern family is a form of family linked to the capitalist economy, which is based on the premise of extended reproduction.However, with the loss of new frontiers and the distribution of wealth to the extreme and the widening disparity between people, the family has lost its family function, and it is no longer possible …