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The effectiveness of in-patient Morita therapy

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This study reports a followup survey of all 1287 Morita therapy patients treated over a 12 year period at Suzuki Clinic in Tokyo. Seventy one percent of all questionnaires sent out were completed and returned. Self evaluations by former patients indicated that slightly more than four fifths were improved to the degree that a relatively normal life was possible (regardless of presence or absence of symptoms.) Improvement appeared to continue after discharge (i.e., it appeared to take time to incorporate the Moritist teachings into daily habit patterns) and to occur more rapidly for hypochondriasis and anxiety neurosis than for obsessive neurosis.

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  1. Suzuki Clinic, 47-10, Honcho 5-chome, Nakano-ku, 164, Tokyo, Japan

    Tomonori Suzuki (the Director) & Ryu Suzuki

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  1. Tomonori Suzuki
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An earlier version of this report was presented at the VIth World Congress of Psychiatry in Honolulu, 1977. We are grateful to Mr. Haruo Kataoka and Mr. Osamu Karasawa for statistical consultation and to Dr. David Reynolds for editoral advice.

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Suzuki, T., Suzuki, R. The effectiveness of in-patient Morita therapy. Psych Quart 53, 203–213 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01064992

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