Psychological Disorders from a Cultural Perspective
Psychological Disorders from a Cultural Perspective
Many
indigenous methods of healing differ from Western notions of healing.
Indigenous healing is a culture-specific intervention, which is
indigenously developed to treat the native people. Naikan therapy is a
type of indigenous healing, which was created and promoted by Ishin
Yoshimoto. In 1953, Yoshimoto established the first Naikan center in
Yamato Koriyama, Nara, Japan. Naikan means introspection. Nai means
inner or inside and kan means looking. Therefore, Naikan literally means
looking inside or looking within. It involves a process of continuous
meditation based upon highly structured instruction in self-observation
and self-reflection, and its purposes are self-discovery and
self-renewal. In Naikan, we explore our past using the following three
themes:
