Shoma Morita, Date of Birth, Date of Death

Shoma Morita

Japanese psychologist

Date of Birth: 18-Jan-1874

Date of Death: 12-Apr-1938

Profession: psychiatrist, psychologist

Nationality: Japan

Zodiac Sign: Capricorn

Morita Masatake (1874-1938), also read as Morita Shoma (?? ??), was a contemporary of Sigmund Freud and the founder of Morita therapy, a branch of clinical psychology strongly influenced by Zen Buddhism.
In his capacity as the head of psychiatry for a large Tokyo hospital, Morita began developing his methods while working with sufferers of shinkeishitsu, or anxiety disorders with a hypochondriac base.