Dostum, nella pagina che hai postato si parla di 13.000 psicologi su 130 milioni di abitanti... In Italia per dire sono 100.000 in un paese di 60 milioni.dostum ha scritto:
Approfitto anche per correggere una curiosa affermazione del forumista Hoover sulla inesistenza degli Psicologi in Giappone
http://www.japan-guide.com/forum/querea ... ml?0+66867
Questo estratto dal libro Japanese culture and therapeutic relationship spiega bene la cosa, e credo sia attendibile. Lo psicologo come lo intendiamo noi la praticamente non esiste...
http://www.wwu.edu/culture/Nippoda1.htm
Japanese people are not, in general, familiar with counseling and psychotherapy and still do not understand the concept of it, although the number of Japanese people who use counseling and psychotherapy is increasing. Counseling and psychotherapy is largely based on Western psychology, and it has not permeated the Japanese culture very much. According to the research conducted to investigate their attitude towards counseling and psychotherapy (Nippoda, 2000), one third of the total participants answered that they do not know if they want to utilise the service as they do not know what it is about. I also found that there are many different impressions of counseling. The common image of counseling and psychotherapy is advice or answers given to their problems, correcting bad behaviour, befriending, listening, curing mental illness, etc (Nippoda, 1997). When Japanese clients assume that counseling and psychotherapy is about a cure for mental illness, it has stigma and shame attached to it (Sue, 1999). For people think its role is mainly listening or befriending. They even show hesitation about paying for counseling and psychotherapy. They would be willing to pay for medicine, but not for talking. The concept of the profession is not properly established. In Japan, mental health issues are mainly dealt with according to a medical model, or people might go to elders for advice. For personal development, activities such as martial arts, flower arrangements or the tea ceremony are used.