Abstract
A bibliographic analysis of Japanese cognitive therapies from 1977 through 1993 was studied. The scope of the search covered cognitive therapy, cognitive behavior therapy and social skills training. The survey located a total of 354 studies over 17 years. After slow growth in the early period, reports of cognitive therapeutic studies increased markedly between 40 to 70 annually in the last 5 years. About 75% were clinical studies and the rest were introductory, methodological and experimental studies. The order of frequency was schizophrenia, methodology & introduction, pedagogy, anxiety & neurosis, eating disorders, depression. As psychosomatic medicine was reported in various fields, this item placed first with 20% of the total if counted together. Seventeen journals cited more than 5 articles. The majority of oral and poster presentations were concentrated in two annual meetings of the Japanese Association of Behavior Therapy and the Japanese Society of Psychosomatic Medicine. Some characteristics are that (1) SST grew up in the latter period, (2) cognitive behavior therapy is widely used in eating disorders in Japan, (3) among 32 books published, 27 are translations, 4) cognitive counselling, a new school derived from field of computer education appeared recently in Japan. One interesting report discussed the relationship between cognitive therapy and Zen, an early form of Japanese religion. This survey suggests that cognitive related therapies are expected to expund.
