Masatake Morita

Born: January 18, 1874 in Fuke village, Noichi town, Kochi prefecture
Died: April 12, 1938

Education

Doctor of Medicine (1924) Tokyo Imperial University—His academic dissertation was “Shinkeishitsu no hontai teki ryoho (Treatment of Nervosity)”
Graduated Medical School at Tokyo Imperial University (1902)

1902 Studied under Kure Hidemi in Graduate School at Tokyo Imperial University
1902 Assistant at Tokyo Imperial University
1903 Doctor at Tokyo Metropolitan Sugamo Hospital
1903 Professor at Tokyo Jikei-kai Iin Igaku Senmon Gakko (Tokyo Jikei-kai Hospital Medical Vocational School)
1906 Worked in psychiatric clinical at Negishi Hospital
1919 Began home health treatment for touchy people
1924 Announced treatment results of “Morita Therapy”
1925 Professor at Jikei-kai Medical College
1929 Advisor at Negishi Hospital, he instructed Takehisa Kora who became a medical director at the hospital.
1937 Retired from Jikei-kai Medical College (became the first honorary professor in the school)

He created his original psychotherapy “Morita Therapy.” Morita Therapy provides patients the idea of well life focusing on human desire and system of fears. His therapy is well known around the world and strongly helps mental patients to overcome their nervousness and live well.

Hiroshi Oizumi (2003). Nihonshinrigakusha-jiten. Tokyo: Kabushiki Kaisha Kress Shuppan.