Talk:Shoma Morita

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Thank you for preserving my article[edit]

I think you will find that much of the text here comes from my circa 1999 article "A Gentle Introduction to Constructive Living" preserved at the Wayback Machine and while I don't mind, in fact the footer on the preserved wayback page does tell you it was Open Content, but I'm thinking it would be kind of nice if I was given credit. Oh and feel free to pillage more content from the original too! As for the Freud reference, I put that into the original for cinematic effect, to set the time period as something familiar to western readers and to emphasize the tragedy that even to this day modern psychology studies ignore Morita, at best dismiss him in a paragraph or two. Also it is not entirely correct to say that Morita Therapy is a branch of Cognitive Therapy as that discipline did not exist at his time; it is more accurate to say that his method is comparable to modern cognitive therapy --Teledyn (talk) 22:21, 9 July 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Freud reference seems superfluous[edit]

"Dr. Morita Masatake (1874 - 1938) (森田正馬) was a contemporary of Sigmund Freud" -- Freud reference seems superfluous here, unless Morita studied with Freud or something. -- Writtenonsand 16:54, 27 August 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Freud reference is important[edit]

In the world history of psychology, Morita is ranked as Freud's equal. He is largely unknown in the west. While Freud's ideas have largely been discredited, Morita's are still practical and almost 180 degrees the opposite of Freud's. The comparison is apt, revealing and historically important.

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I realize that some links are helpful to certain users, but they still do not comply with Wikipedia policy, and therefore must not be included in the article. WhatamIdoing (talk) 07:58, 17 January 2008 (UTC)[reply]

some nonsense here regarding west vs. east ...article needs a heavy overhaul[edit]

'Implicit in Morita's method ... is an independence of thought and action, something a little alien to the Western ideal to "follow our whims and moods."'

Absurd statement. For one thing, the need for Morita's therapy wouldn't have existed in Japan if there weren't so many people suffering as a result of following their whims and moods. And what Western ideal are you talking about? The stiff upper lip? Stoicism?

More importantly, it doesn't seem that Morita himself held this opinion of West vs. East but is rather a fanciful interpolation by somebody ignorant of both cultures. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2604:2000:12C1:4B2F:6CBB:E3F7:C92:CEF6 (talk) 12:57, 8 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]