精神科医神谷美恵子の病跡とSpirituality

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Although Dr. Mieko Kamiya was an excellent psychiatrist and poet, she could not adapt to school life and felt the hardships of life in young age. Furthermore, she contracted tuberculosis, a disease of death at the time, and recuperated alone at a villa in Karuizawa with feelings of despair.She fell into a deep depressive state and spent days of distress.In closed extreme situations, Kamiya had the mysteriousexperience of having her whole body bathed in divine light. She thus had the consciousness of a second life, because of her rebirth from the depths of despair. After this experience, Kamiya claimed to have been born again and desired strongly to exist for extremely anguished people. Having awakened her spirituality, she said that she had been made to speak by a devil in her mind (exactly the spiritual dimension). She had come to express her deep emotion in poetry and she felt the mission to sacrifice her life for extremely anguished Hansen's disease patients. Psycho-therapy for Hansen's disease patients was indeed spiritual care. Spiritual care had idealist and unclear areas. Psychiatrist Mieko Kamiya's natural, inevitable and sympathized psycho-therapy was a valuable practice for thinking aboutspiritual care. That practice was recorded in Mieko Kamiya's writings.
2012-03-15