Naikan Therapy Vs Western Psychotherapy

This paper will focus on both Western and Naikan Psychotherapy, and the similarities and differences between both their indigenous healing processes. Naikan Therapy, is a “directed form of mediation practiced in Japan (Reynolds, 2016). It has shown to have “positive effects in” areas such as “neuroses”, “psychosomatic disorder”, “and delinquency problems” (Reynolds, 2016). This “form of therapy reconstructs the individuals past to reshape his or her attitudes and behaviors in the present” (Reynolds, 2016). Western psychotherapy “uses psychological methods”, in relation to “personal interaction” ("Psychotherapy: How it Works and How it Can Help," 2016, p. 04). This “type of psychotherapy focuses on helping individuals overcome”, and “change
This form of therapy “focuses on facts”, and “takes the person back to visit how they were cared for and supported in his or her past” ("Naikan Therapy - Naikan approach," 2016). The counselor “helps the client” to “understand his or her experiences of others” throughout “their past” ("Naikan Therapy - Naikan approach," 2016). Naikan therapy also has the “person take responsibility for their behavior and problems” that they may have or have “caused” to “other people” ("Naikan Therapy - Naikan approach," 2016). It’s a self-reflection therapy of oneself. This type of therapy provides a “structured framework” that is “systematic”, and “begins” with the individual’s “initial years of life”, and continuing on to following years, and then to the “present time” in that person’s life ("Naikan Therapy - Naikan approach," 2016). “Encouraging appreciation of life”, as well as “to others” ("Naikan Therapy - Naikan approach," 2016). It’s a “non-judgement” type of therapy which ‘leads the individual” to a “realistic vision over blame and guilt” ("Naikan Therapy - Naikan approach," 2016). “Focusing on taking action over feelings of stagnation”, and “getting stuck in self-justification” ("Naikan Therapy - Naikan approach," 2016). Allowing the person to “look closely” at all of the “people’s situations” and “objects which had an impact on his or her life, starting the parents, siblings, etc” ("Naikan Therapy - Naikan approach," 2016). Naikan therapy looks into the “important events”, and “circumstances that surrounded those events”, which helped “shaped who you are today” ("Naikan Therapy - Naikan approach," 2016). Western psychotherapy “strives” at “helping” individuals “increase one’s self-esteem”, and “focuses on one’s feelings”, using psychological methods including “personal interaction” (Rose, 2015). The form of therapy takes the