Abstract
In this article, basic concepts of Morita therapy are outlined, and its application to the treatment of somatoform disorder is illustrated through the investigation of cases of outpatient and inpatient. The vicious circle between anxious attention and sensitive feelings causes the fixation of patients' anxiety and their neurotic symptoms. Anxiety and neurotic symptom are considered as the other side of the coin of "Desire for life". In Morita therapy, after having sufficiently listened to patients' complaints about somatic symptoms, therapist treated their anxiety as something natural and encouraged them to step into actions while coping with anxiety. Attention to daily life itself has an effect of shifting a focus from patient's obsession with physical status and of regaining a natural state of physical and psychological being, which leads to the interaction with self as "arugamama (as it is)".
