A few weeks ago I presented a short paper at a conference organised by the Asian Society for the History of Medicine, entitled ‘Doing Psychoanalysis in the Spirit of Shinran: The Relationship Between Theory and Worldview in the Lives of Japan’s First Psychoanalysts’. Here is a podcast of the paper, Read more…
A few weeks ago, Japan’s best-known Buddhist nun and activist Setouchi Jakucho was kind enough to give me an interview about her little-known period in psychoanalysis with Heisaku Kosawa, in the mid-1960s. (For Japanese readers, she discusses it briefly in 五十からでも遅くない ). Setouchi credits Kosawa with a radical shift in Read more…
I’ll be presenting some work in progress in Sapporo and then in Tokyo towards the end of this year – see here for details. For the Tokyo conference (Asian Society for the History of Medicine), I’m delighted to be part of a panel with Professor Shinichi Yoshinaga, who along with Read more…
I had the privilege at the weekend of interviewing a man (I’ll be keeping his name anonymous) who had a course of psychoanalytic therapy with Heisaku Kosawa back in the mid-1940s, when he was a young man of 22 and Kosawa was in his late forties. From this period of Read more…
Just back from the Japan Society for the History of Psychiatry conference, at Aichi Prefectural University, where I presented some early thoughts on Heisaku Kosawa’s personal papers. We were in a part of the university built for the Expo back in 2005, so it’s still all brand spanking new, with Read more…
I’ve recently joined Academia.edu, and have posted a book chapter I published in 2009, featuring Heisaku Kosawa. Take a look….!
This site is designed to give an overview of my research project on Heisaku Kosawa. I’ll post research updates here now and again, alongside my main blog – the distinctly uninvitingly named ‘Boredom Project‘…