Staff Psychiatrist Section Chief

C.F. Menninger Memorial Hospital

Box 829
Topeka, KS 66601-0829

TEL: (913) 273-7500 ext. 5144
FAX: (913) 273-5522

CAN BE INTERVIEWED FOR: Print, Radio, TV

INTERVIEW LANGUAGES: English, Japanese

SPECIALIZATIONS:

• SOCIETY, CULTURE AND PSYCHOLOGY
  comparative and cross-cultural studies; cultural stereotypes; group psychotherapy; hospital team treatment; interpersonal relations; mental health in Japan and US; psychoanalysis; transcultural psychiatry; US perceptions of Japan

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:

J. Hambleton Abrahams Professor of the Karl Menninger School of Psychiatry and Mental Health Sciences, 1992-93; Staff Psychiatrist and Team Leader, C. F. Menninger Memorial Hospital, 1974-85; Senior Staff Psychiatrist, Shikiba Hospital, 1969-70; Lecturer, Abnormal Child Psychology, University of Education and Arts of Tokyo, 1968-69; Faculty Member, Department of Psychiatry, University of Tokyo, 1965-67; Staff Child Psychiatrist, National Children's Hospital, 1967-1968; Staff Psychiatrist, Kanto Central General Hospital, 1965.

IN US: 1970-present - employment.

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS:

"A Comparative Study of Japanese and American Group Dynamics," The Psychoanalytical Review (1991); The Infant Mind and Psychopathology (Iwasaki, 1988); "Cultural Conflicts and Related Illnesses," Therapy and Culture Seishin no Kagaku 8 (Iwanami, 1983); "Adolescent Symbiotic Psychopathology: A Cultural Comparison of American and Japanese Patterns and Resolutions," Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic (1980).