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Organization / Workplace
Chiba-shi, Chiba, Japan
Occupation
Lecturer
About
I did my PhD and clinical training in Tokyo. My doctoral dissertation Investigated the cognitive process in which perfectionism personality leads to positive and negative consequences.
Then I moved to Institute of Psychiatry, Kings College London to do my post-doctoral project on reassurance seeking in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
After returning to Japan, I have expanded my research project on reassurance seeking to health anxiety, and started helping athletes with psychological problems. Moreover, along with three other psychiatrists, I established a CBT training course in Chiba University, in order to increase the number of cognitive behavioural therapists.
I am currently wor