Word: soichi
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...near total rejection of psychoanalysis? After all, Freud's works had been translated into Japanese by 1930, and after World War II many Japanese medical students and doctors went to the U.S. to study psychoanalysis. Tokyo Analyst Soichi Hakozaki offers one answer: the "softened ego" of the Japanese, produced by a clannish and group-oriented culture that ignores the individualism that is essential to the success of analytic techniques...
...salute Tokyo Psychiatrist Soichi Hakozaki and his lefty liberation crusade. A year ago, I found out that all my left-handed guitar students suffered from severe rhythm problems and a general inability to improvise. A specially strung guitar designed to be strummed with the left hand and fretted with the right solved the problem. Those who achieved skill, however, found that professional-quality lefthanded instruments were very hard to obtain. Other lefthanders insisted from the start that they were as good as any righthander and did not want any special favors. The result was that they were unable to develop...
...nervous tic afflicting the Tokyo grade school girl was so severe that her entire body shook every time she twitched. When she was finally brought to Tokyo Psychiatrist Soichi Hakozaki, the diagnosis was surprisingly simple. The girl was lefthanded, and her mother had been trying to make her use her right hand by binding the left with tape. Two days after mom's therapy was stopped, the tic disappeared...
...fact, Japanese girls often sum up the qualifications of an eligible boy friend in a cynical cliché: "lye tsuki, car tsuki, baba nuki" (with a house, with a car, without an old lady). "To our old folks, all this proves shocking, depressing and downright exasperating," observes Professor Soichi Nasu, a sociologist at Tokyo's Chuo University, who specializes in the problems of old age. "Just like their ancestors, they had anticipated companionship and support from their children, only to discover that the foundation had crumbled...