Publisher/千葉元追悼刊行委員会

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This book is a compilation of the history of Seinan Hospital, the first psychiatric hospital established in Hachinohe, Aomori Prefecture, and the trajectory of its founder, Gen Chiba. Therapy (Photo: Mitsutoshi Hanaga)”. It was published in 1985, the year after Gen Chiba passed away. This is based on Chiba's conviction that, instead of keeping patients in the hospital and administering drug treatment, they are guided outside the ward and undergo open occupational therapy, promoting their recovery and their subsequent reintegration into society. However, the method is very unique. In addition to ``occupational therapy'' through agriculture, ``art therapy'' through ceramics and sculpture production, and sometimes ``butoh therapy'' with the cooperation of famous butoh artists such as Mitsutaka Ishii and Kazuko Toyoshima. And so on, and the atmosphere created by them seems to have given off a certain peculiar atmosphere. Mitsutoshi Hanaga felt that atmosphere and asked him to take the pictures himself. An avant-garde photographer who has captured the world of Butoh.