An Idea of Compliment for “Tickling” Mind

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The purpose of this study is to try proposing the idea and analyzing about clinical usage of compliment, which heavily weighted in the Brief Therapy. Maruta and Ishii (2008, 2009) has been proposed “Tickling” as one of the ideas about compliment. The demonstrative study was defining “Tickling” as a compliment which was due to finding resource in the bitter reality based on the three effective conditions about intervention “small, acceptable, and funny” suggested by Hasegawa(2005). This study was conducted by using questionnaire, and searched the main factor of tickling and how it effects on feeling of comfortableness and process of cognition. From the result, some factors of tickling were clarified about their influence. Since the influence of titillating feeling with “tickling” could confirm, importance of “tickling” as contrive of compliment was shown that the tickling changes intrapersonal level of comfortableness and cognition regarding problem for positive way.