2014 Volume 20 Issue 1 Pages 79-89
Naikan Therapy was introduced to China in the seventh East China district psychiatric society conference in 1992. In the twenty years since, Naikan therapy has become rooted in the mental health field in China, and has undergone its own developments there. In the present study, we performed Intensive Naikan for one week on a number of patients at a mental health center in a Shanghai hospital. We conducted the ‘sense of rejection and sense of acceptance’ scale test, and the ‘Internal working model’ scale test to evaluate the results. In addition to these tests, we conducted interviews with patients about their impressions of the therapy, and discuss these in conjunction with noted differences in Japanese and Chinese culture, as well as the implementation structure used at our site, to derive some observations on the factors that structure the effects of Naikan therapy in Shanghai.
