YAMA Megumi 山 愛美
  • Specially-appointed Professor
  • Department of Psychology, Faculty of Humanities
Faculty Profile
Research Field

Depth Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Psychotherapy

Affiliated Academic Societies

The Association of Japanese Clinical Psychology, The Japan Association of Sandplay Therapy, The Japan Association of Clinical Studies for Mind & Body, The Japan Association of Jungian Psychology, International Association for Jungian Studies

Courses Taught

Depth Psychology,

Academic Degrees

P h.D. Kyoto University

Achievements and Awards

2002 The Encouragement Prize of the Japanese Association of Clinical Psychology

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Research Overview

List of Researches
Research Keywords

Japanese Psyche, Comparative Cultural Study on Styles of Expression, The Creative Process of Haruki Murakami、AI and Psyche、Case Studies of Psychotherapy

Academic Papers

Please refer to Researchmap

Publications

【Japanese】Y
ama, M. (2003):”Kotoba no Fukami e: Shinririnshou no kotoba ni tusuite no ichikousatsu, To the depth of words: A study of words in psychotherapy. Tokyo: Seishinshobo Publisher Co. Ltd.(in Japanese)”(in Japanese)Yama, M. (2016): "Yasuo Kazuki Kuro no souzou. Yasuo Kazuki: The creation of ‘Black’. A painter who never stopped painting Siberia, the depth of creative activity and his work of art." Tokyo: Tomi Shobo. (in Japanese) Yama, M. (2019): ”Murakami Haruki, Houhou to shite no shousetsu: kioku no kosou e, Haruki. Murakami: novel as method, a descent into the depths of memory” Tokyo: Shin-yo-sha. (in Japanese)、Yama, M. (2022): Shinriryohoka ga yomitoku “Kimi no na wa”: Me ni Mienai chikara, A Psychotherapeutic Reading of the Japanese Animated Film "Your Name": The Power of Invisible Imagery. Tokyo: Shin-yo-sha.
【English】
Yama, M. (2021): How can we survive in this Globalized Age? Exploring ego consciousness in the Western and the Japanese psyche. In Jungian Psychology in the East and the West: Cross-cultural perspectives from Japan. Nakamura, K. and Carta, S.(eds) . London& New York. Routledge. pp15-25.
Yama, M. (2020): The concept of kami in Shintō and holism: Psychotherapy and Japanese
literature in Holism: Possibilities and Problems. London & New York. Routledge. pp.170-179.
Yama, M. (2019): Chapter 13 The Red Book: A Journey from West to East via the Realm of the
Dead. In Jung`s Red Book for Our Time: Searching for Soul under Postmodern Conditions.
Murry, S.& Arzt, T. (eds.) Chiron Publications. pp.273-290.
Yama, M. (2019): Chapter 3 Listening to a dream-narrative: A language for narrating boundaries.
In Narratives of Individuation Jones, R. A. & Gardner, L. (eds.) London & New York: Routledge. pp.52-70.
Yama, M. (2018): Chapter 20 Spirited Away and its depiction of Japanese Traditional Culture. In
The Routledge International Handbook of Jungian Film Studies. Luke Hockley (ed.)
UK & New York: Routledge. pp.254-262.
Yama, M. (2018): Non-fixed multiple perspectives in the Japanese Psyche: traditional Japanese
art, dream and myth. In Contemporary Influences of C.G. Jung's Thought. Contemporary
Psychoanalytic Studies, Volume: 24. Andrew Kuzmicki and Ilona Błocian (eds.) Leiden:
Brill.141-157.
Yama, M. (2011): Chapter 2. Listening to the narratives of a pre-modern world: Beyond the
world of dichotomy. In Jungian and Dialogical Self Perspective. Jones, R. A. &Morioka, M.
(eds) London: Palgrave. 30-42.