An Interview with Koichi Togashi

Abstract

In Global Perspectives, we bring you interviews with psychoanalysts from around the world in an effort to explore the influence of culture on training, theory development, and adherence to clinical technique and psychoanalytic practice in general.

Keywords:

• pandemic
• trauma
• Japanese psychoanalysis
• self-psychology
• Zoom

Disclosure Statement

No potential conflict of interest was reported by the author(s).

Additional information

Notes on contributors

Jill Choder-Goldman

Jill Choder-Goldman, LCSW, is the Interview Editor for Psychoanalytic Perspectives and a licensed psychoanalyst and psychotherapist. She received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from New York University and her postgraduate psychoanalytic and supervisory training from the National Institute for the Psychotherapies Training Institute. She is also a certified Group Therapist now, after completing a two year advanced program in group therapy from EGPS.

She has a private practice in New York City, where she treats individuals, couples, and groups, and currently is a clinical supervisor and advisor for NIPTI. She also devotes a part of her practice to those in the arts, having had a successful career as a performer for 30 years.

This interview with Dr. Koichi Togashi is her ninth interview in the journal’s section Global Perspectives.