Morita-therapy (first applied by Dr. Shoma Morita around 1920} is a farm of psychotherapy used in over 30 hospitals all over Japan for treatment of "shinkeishitsu".
Persons with a "hypochondriac disposition" experiencing an unpleasant sensation such as headache or heart-acceleration concentrate their attention on this phenomenon. By mutual interaction of sensation and attention to the sensation a vicious circle is created ("psychic interaction") and a state of "shinkeishitsu" results. Clinical subcategories of "shinkeishitsu" are 1. ordinary neurasthenic states, 2. obsessive-phobic states, and 3. paroxysmal-neurotic states.
Morita-therapy is a training or drilling treatment of the hypochondriac temperament underlying the disease and aims at the destruction of psychic interaction. "Aru ga mama" (lit. "just as it is" or "just as you are") is the central principle of Morita-therapy: acceptance of oneself, one's symptoms, reality, just as they are.
Treatment in a hospital takes an average of 40 days and is divided into 4 phases. A certain relation to Buddhism, especially to Zen, and a similarity to Frankl's logotherapy are notable.