Cultural incommensurability in psychodynamic psychotherapy in Western and Japanese traditions

Journal of Nursing Scholarship

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 30-38

  Kozuki, Yoriko ^a,b   Kennedy, Michael G ^a,b  

^a Psi at Large ^*  (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Culture; Japan; Psychotherapy

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; ASIAN AMERICAN; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION DISORDER; CONFLICT; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH PERSONNEL ATTITUDE; HUMAN; JAPAN; MALE; MENTAL DISEASE; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PHILOSOPHY; PSYCHOANALYSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; STANDARD; UNITED STATES;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ASIAN AMERICANS; ATTITUDE OF HEALTH PERSONNEL; ATTITUDE TO HEALTH; COMMUNICATION BARRIERS; CONFLICT (PSYCHOLOGY); CULTURAL DIVERSITY; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; FEMALE; HEALTH KNOWLEDGE, ATTITUDES, PRACTICE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MENTAL DISORDERS; MIDDLE AGED; NORTHWESTERN UNITED STATES; PHILOSOPHY, MEDICAL; PHYSICIAN-PATIENT RELATIONS; PREJUDICE; PSYCHOANALYTIC INTERPRETATION; PSYCHOANALYTIC THERAPY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; WESTERN WORLD;

EID: 2942668328     PISSN: 15276546     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1547-5069.2004.04008.x     Document Type: Article

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