'Reading the air', finding common ground: reconsidering Rogers' therapeutic conditions as a framework for understanding therapy in Japan. Issue 1 (2nd July 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Komiya, Noboru; Tudor, Keith
• Is Part Of: Asia pacific journal of counselling and psychotherapy. Volume 7:Issue 1/2(2016)
• Page Start: 26
• Page End: 38
• Publication Date: 2016-07-02
• Subjects: Japanese culture -- Carl Rogers -- the necessary and sufficient conditions of therapy; Counseling -- Periodicals; Psychotherapy -- Periodicals; 616.8914
• DOI: 10.1080/21507686.2016.1157088
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 2150-7686

Abstract

ABSTRACT: The article reconsiders Carl Rogers' theory of the necessary and sufficient conditions of therapy in the context of therapy in Japan. It prefaces this with the discussion of certain characteristics of Japanese culture which have an impact on the therapeutic relationship and ways of working, specifically with regard to those Western therapies practised in Japan. The article offers both a cultural reading of Rogers' six conditions and a caution about the transposition of theory and practice from West to East.