[The past and future of psychiatry and mental treatment in Japan from the viewpoint of dynamic psychiatry].

Many psychoanalytic papers of S. Freud have been introduced in this country since the 1910s. However, a majority of psychiatric professors were critical of them. K. Marui was an exception. H. Kosawa, as a student of Marui, had studied with R. Sterba and P. Federn under the direction of S. Freud in Vienna. After WWII, interest in psychoanalysis increased in this country. The Japan Psychoanalytical Society and the Japan Psychoanalytical Association were organized in 1955. Also, international exchanges in this area have been developing. The psychotherapeutic and psychoanalytical needs of individuals in Japan have been increasing in relation to social and cultural changes. For the further development of dynamic psychiatry, some tasks are considered necessary, as follows: 1) collaboration with biological psychiatry, 2) contribution to psychiatric diagnosis, and 3) utilization of the therapist-patient relationship in psychiatric treatment.