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This article is based on a special lecture at the annual meeting of Japan Psychoanalytical Society, 2013, which meant Dr. Takahashi’s retirement from his professional career in Japan. In brief, Dr. Takahashi started his career as a psychiatrist in Tokyo University Hospital, who then became interested in Child Psychiatry and got acquainted with Dr. Ogura, who returned from the United States after working and training for eight years there, mainly at Menninger Clinic. This encounter stimulated Dr. Takahashi to head for the West, for further training as a child psychiatrist. Different from his original idea of learning for two years, his stay in the United States extended more than a quarter century and, once he settled down in Topeka, saw him as the director of The Hope Program at the Menninger Clinic helping adults with complex psychiatric issues. Then his quest progressed to having formal psychoanalytic training at the Topeka Institute for Psychoanalysis.
On being qualified in his middle sixties, and his having completed identification as a psychoanalyst, Dr. Takahashi decided to return to the East, this time to provide his experience and knowledge to Japanese colleagues, at Osaka, Japan. After seventeen years of teaching and clinical work in Japan, he remarked that this lecture was his farewell speech, which consisted of two parts; first, as in Japan, once-a-week psychoanalytic psychotherapy has been broadly performed, so that he had to invent a way to organize and facilitate training methods, specific for psychoanalytic psychotherapy; and, second, to overcome and resolve his quest and the reason behind it, he needed to narrate his professional pilgrimage to a Japanese audience, who also seek the truth in the human psyche.
Takashi Okudera
Issue Editor
And now, it’s time to open the first program of today’s Scientific Meeting, which is a lecture by Dr. Tetsuro Takahashi. The title of his presentation is “Splitting, conflict, resolution, and realiza