Psychoanalysis
Consciously or unconsciously, we often try to live up to others’expectations,
to be perfectly up tp some existing standard, to compare ourselves with
others, etc. These are a form of narcissism, for these are in order to
feel our self-worth or to escape from the anxiety of walking our own paths
alone. And in this way, we ignore our real non-egoistic desire, i.e., subtle
voices inside us which tells us what to do, what to think, what to say,
what to ask etc.,that we could hear if we were really honest to ourselves
and non-egoistic. But if we continue to live this way, ignoring these voices
too much, the thoughts that are repressed together with these voices will
return as some symptoms, like psycho-somatic symptoms, obsession, dissociation,
depression, addiction, self-injuting behaviors, difficulties in human relationship,
errors in speech, memory, and actions, etc..
The solution is to recover these thoughts and give them again our voices.
Psychoanalysis is a way for it. Psychoanalysis tries to realize it by 《free
association》on the side of the analysand(i.e. client),i.e., to give voices
whatever comes to his (=the analysand's) own mind, and on the side of the
paychoanalyst, by 《interpretation》, i.e., usually words but sometimes actions
that help the analysand further his free association.
However the aim of psychoanalysis is not the complete solution of symptoms.
The complete solution of symptoms is an illusion. There is no one who does
not have symptoms. The aim of psychoanalysis is to be able to live one's
own authentic desire, which cannot be egoistic as long as it is really
authentic and which is to make the best of one's own body and soul, to
be able to do well with one's symptoms as far as symptoms are concered,
and to be able to live always psychoanalising oneself even without psychoanalysts.
Kokura Office of Counseling and Psychanalyse offers psychoanalysis.
Counseling
As one not always needs psychoanalyis, which is a fairly intensive way
to relate to one's own psyche and which in general takes a long time, and
as often it is just an information or a intellectual recognition about
one's own symptoms or about a way to relate to others that one wants, this
office offers counseling also. How long you should come to counseling depends
on your problem, your goal, etc. Of course, just once is OK, if you hope.
For example, just once is often enough for those who wants to know how
to raise up their children.
Fee
psychoanalysis ( All the followings, not only about fee, apply to counseling
as well.)
50 minutes
----- 5,000 yen
Appointment
Appointments should be arranged in advance by telephone or by e-mail.
E-mail is better, for I, the psychoanalyst and counselor, am deaf in my
right ear, and sometimes it is hard to communicate by smartphone especially
in a noisy atmosphere.
Reception of telephone is possible between 9:00 and 23:00.
If I, the psychoanalyst and counselor, am absent, leave your message in
the phone including your telephone number, I will call you back within
a few days.
Telephone 080-1943-2192 (Mizukami)
E-mail m3m3-kne-3-mas-001* dream.ocn.ne.jp (insert @ instead of *)
*For your mail to be distinguished from fraud mails, please insert in the subject line at least the words "Kokura".
Cancellation Fee
The fee for Cancellation (including just the change of time), i.e., \5000,
will be charged if you had not notified me of your will of cancellation
until 23:00 of the day before the appointed day. If you had notified me
earlier than this time, no cancellation fee will be charged: just leaving
the message in the phone or sending me an e-mail by this time is enough.
Much more about psychoanalysis
＜How long do psychoanalysis generally take? How often should one come to
sessions?＞
It depends on the gravity of your problem, how high you set your goal.i.e.,how
much you want to change your internal structure, and how much effort you
put into 《free association》． So,I should say that it is impossible to foretel
the length. You should think that it in general takes a long time. So,the
founder of psychoanalysis Freud says that it is better to try psychoanalysis
about two weeks first (i.e.,two weekds = about ten sessions at the epoque
of Freud)and if one can see some favorable change continue to come. As,
now in Japan, usually the pace is not so intensive, around three times
in a week being average, I propose you to try several sessions first and
decide if you continue or not. Of course, you have right to quit anytime.
But as often one starts to feel some unwillingness to come to psychoanalysis
at the very immportant moment when one is encountering one's unconscious
because this unconscious content is the very thing that one does not want
to see--that's why it has become unconscious--, hopefully you would report
the unwillingness to the psychoanalyst and see if you really want to quit
psychoanalysis. To put it concretely, while there are some who come to
psychoanalysis for several years, there are some who come to it just a
few times. But, though I am afraid to lead you into some autosuggestion,
if I dare say, from my experience about 30% of cases, after ten or twenty
sessions, have reached some solutions of their problems, satisfactory to
some extent, though their problems may not have been so deep-rooted, their
goals may have not been too high, or they may have paid enough effort,
or whatever.
As for the pace of psychoanalysis, it is better to come to psychoanalysis
at least once a week, hopefully more. It is said that the total number
of psychoanalysis sessions tends to be less the shorter is the interval.
If it is once two week, the interval is too long although this pace is
not too impossible, depending on individuals. So, tell your circumstances
and consult with the psychoanalyst before deciding your pace.
<Those to whom psychoanalysis is not appropriate>
Those with schisophrenia or with grave depressive and/or manic psychosis
had better avoid psychoanalysis,
for, as It is generally said, psychoanalysis may bring them thought confusion
or too much fatigue. Medication is usually the first choise of treatment
for them, and as this office is not a medical institution and so medical
treatment is not possible, it is advisable for them to visit mental clinics
or psychiatric hospitals.
Those whose goal is too narcissistic, for example, a goal like being a
person who can control others, etc., and those who desire complete dissapiearance
of symptoms.
Those whose problem is not a psychological problem.
Profile of the psychoanalyst and counselor
Name: Masatoshi Mizukami
Year of birth: 1960
Sex: male
<Qualification> ①Clinical psychologist (certified in 1998 by Foundation
of the Japanese Certification Board for Clinical Pscychologists) ②Art Therapist
(certified in 2007 by the Japanese Society of Psychipathology of Expression
and Arts Therapy
<Academic Background>
B.A. in Psychology and in Religion, Sophia University, Department of Foreign
Language, Division of Comparative Culture, Tokyo, Japan
August,1985
M.A. in Educational Psychology, International Christian University, Tokyo,
Japan March, 1992
<Training received>
Taisho University Counseling Institute April 1986 - March 1988
Training in psychiatric day care, Mejiro Sato Clinic May 1987- March 1988
Traing in psychiatric interview by attending a psychiatrist's interview
at Department of Neuropsychiatry the University of Tokyo May 1991-September
1991
Lacanian didactic psychoanalysis, about 280 sessions for about 4 years
and 10 months 2000-2005
<Main work experiences>
St.Marianna Univ. School of Medicine, Department of Neuropsychiatry, Art
therapist, April 1987-March 1989
Taisho University Counseling Institute, counselor April 1988-March 1989
Bungoso Hospital, psychologist April 1989-July 1990
St.Marianna Memorial Hospital, psychologist and caseworker April 1992-March
1994
Nakano-ku Public Health Center, group worker of psychiatric day care April
1994-March 1996
Tokyo Adachi Hospital, Psychiatric day care staff April 1994-March 1996
Japan Women's University, Counseling Cnter, counselor April 1994-March
1996
Universe Shop Community Workshop for the Mentally Handicapped, psychologist
April 1994-March 1996
Katsushikabashi Hospital, psychologist January 1996-March 2005
School Counselor of Tokyo April 2001-March 2002
Tokinokane Counseling Room, president, counselor October 2001-August 2005
Heisei Clinic Psychologist April 2002-November 2002
School Counselor of Saitama City April 2004-March 2005
Yamaguchi Counseling Room, president, counselor August 2005 - present
Yamaguchi Allied Health College, counselor October 2005-present
School Counselor of Yamaguchi Prefecture April 2006-March 2013 April 2018-March
2022
Yamaguchi Prefecture Labour Bureau, counselor at Ube Employment Assistance
and Guidance Center
May 2006 -March 2011
Kokura Office of counseling and psychoanalysis August 2014-present
Kyushu Nutrition Welfare University, counselor May 2017-March 2022
<Main Achievements (The following English titles of articles, names
of journals, names of organizations etc. are temporary translations for
this page)>
Articles:
・'On the Function of "Re-affirmation" of Ego-dystonic Aspects
of External Objects for the Adolescent Ego's Acceptance of the Sexual Drive',
Reports of Nihon Women's University Counseling Center, no.17:16-19,1995
・'On the Significance of "the Killed Primal Father" Image in
"Alpha and Omega" by Munch', Reports of Nihon Women's University
Counseling Center, no.18:24-29,1996
・'On Some Reactions of a Patient with Paranoid Schizophrenia to the Rules
of a Cay Care Center and the
Procedure for Their Creation Aimed at Establishing the "Name-of-the-Father",
The Official Journal of the Japan Association of Group Psychotherapy, vol.17,
no.2: 114-121, 2001
・'On the Color of Blue as a Signifier of the Real', Lacanian Studies (
The original formal title of the journal is, Les étude lacaniennes.) ,
no.5, 62-75, 2006
Main presentations in congresses:
・'On Some Reactions of a Patient with Paranoid Schizophrenia to the Rules
of a Cay Care Center and the
Procedure for Their Creation Aimed at Establishing the "Name-of-the-Father",
Annual Meeting of the Japanese Association for Group Psychotherapy,2001
・'On the structure of a female psychotic patient who can't have a clear
sense of her own sexual identity', Lacanian Society of Japan, 2001
・'On the relation between the level of establishment of the Name-of-the-Father
of a patient in relation with his ability to identify "I" on
his paintings', The Japanese Society of Expression and Arts Therapy,2003
・'On the Significance of Heterochromatism in Relation with the Openness
to the Third Term', The Japanese Society of Expression and Arts Therapy,2004
・'On a realistic grasp of groups in the famtasy of a male homosexual' Annual
Meeting of the Japanese Association for Group Psychotherapy,2005
・'On the Fixation on the self Body Image of a Depressive Patient Observed
in Focusing', The Japanese Society of Expression and Arts Therapy,2005
・'On the relation between the incompleteness of the mourning work by Chuuya
Nakahara about the death of his younger brother and the perception of non-existance
where there should be existence and existence where there should not be
existence that can be seen in the poems of Chuuya Nakahara', , The Japanese
Society of Expression and Arts Therapy,2006
・'Schizophrenics' Heterochromatism in Their Paintings and Their Psychical
Safe Space', 14th Conference of International Association of Dynamic Psychotherapy,
2008
Other activities:
・Head of the Tokyo Office for Association of Youth Co-Workers of Mother
Teresa, 1986-1990
・Volunteer of the English-Japanese Translation for Association for Aid
and Relief (AAR),Japan, 2001-2002