Chapman Christopher
School of Social Sciences, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, Singapore.
Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.
Cult Med Psychiatry. 2025 Sep;49(3):892-909. doi: 10.1007/s11013-025-09916-5. Epub 2025 Jun 2.
Mental health care is a vibrant part of child protective services in Japan, and the adoption and utilization of psychotherapeutic techniques from abroad mark a complex site of cross-cultural exchanges. This paper explores how art therapy has been brought into Japan's protection system and its implications for professional practice. Focusing on clinical psychologist Yuri and her narratives on learning art therapy, this paper utilizes an interpretive and phenomenological framework to illustrate the importance of embodied experience in delivering care and how practitioners may reform their perspectives on care by reframing their own traumatic memories. Yuri's art therapy offers a culturally contextualized view of the self as social, care purpose, and resilience.
精神卫生保健是日本儿童保护服务的一个活跃组成部分，国外心理治疗技术的采用和应用标志着一个跨文化交流的复杂场所。本文探讨了艺术疗法是如何被引入日本的保护体系及其对专业实践的影响。本文以临床心理学家尤里及其关于学习艺术疗法的叙述为重点，运用解释性和现象学框架来说明身体体验在提供护理中的重要性，以及从业者如何通过重新构建自己的创伤记忆来改变他们对护理的看法。尤里的艺术疗法提供了一种将自我视为社会、护理目的和复原力的文化背景化观点。
