Introduction: Body and Mind

Final and complete healing will come from within, from the soul itself, which by His beneficence rediates harmony throughout the personality when allowed to do so.
Dr. Edward Bach

I received my Ph.D. in Medical Science specializing in Psychiatry and Neurophysiology at Tokyo Medical and Dental University. In contrast to most clinical psychologists, who do post-graduate work in the department of psychology, I decided that it was beneficial for me to have a deeper understanding of the complex mechanism linking body and mind.

Sigmund Freud, he is one of the important influence in psychiatry.
Although he is most widely known for his work in psychoanalysis, he was also among the first investigators to explore deep relationship between body and mind. The nature of his investigation is illustrated through one of his case histories.

The case was “O. Anna”. One day, a young pretty woman came to Freud’s clinic because of a disturbance in her swallowing. She could not drink water from a glass. She went around to several doctors but every medical examination of her throat was normal. Doctors could do nothing. She was suffering and was at a loss.

Freud guessed that she has some psychological problems because there was nothing obviously wrong with her body. He treated her with free association (psychoanalysis). Freud’s insightful analysis identified her core problem.

The fact was : she had hated her father because of his rudeness. Of course, she had not been aware of her own negative feelings because she was an educated woman who had assumed a shy personality. One day, she saw her father allowing his dog to drink water with a glass, which was used by their family for human consumption. She was shocked by this behavior, but because of her modesty could not tell him anything. After a time, she could not drink water from any type of drinking glass.

She could not recognize her anger and hate inside her. After Freud’s psychoanalysis therapy, she accepted her bad feeling. As a result, she also completely recovered her normal ability to swallow.

The interesting story tells us of the close relationship between body and mind. In this case, Freud treated her mind to cure her body. In some cases, the opposite is true: you can treat the body to cure the mind. While this aspect of Mind-Body connection is not as widely known, it has been developed through careful clinical practice over the past thirty years in the U.S.A. and Canada. Two of the leading approaches that have been developed are “BodyTalk” and “Three In One Concepts”. I have had training both of these Alternative therapeutic approaches and I have integrated the Western medicine and this unique Alternative therapy method.