Vita
David K. Reynolds, Ph.D.
Address: P.O. Box 85
Coos Bay, OR 97420
Tel: (541) 269-5591
Email: [email protected]
Education
B.A.(Honors) UCLA, Anthropology, l964
M.A. UCLA, Anthropology, l965
Ph.D. UCLA, Anthropology, l969
Principal Professional Positions
1989-Present Director, Constructive Living Center, Coos Bay, Oregon
1989-1991 Co-Director, ToDo Institute, Middlebury, Vermont
1988 Adviser, World Health Org., National Training Course, People's Republic of China, Constructive Living
1980-89 Director, ToDo Institute, Los Angeles
1979-80 Associate Professor, University of Houston, Dept. of Anthropology
1979 Research Fellow, Tokyo Metropolitan Institute of Gerontology
1974-79 Assistant Professor, University of Southern California, School of Medicine, Departments of Human Behavior and Psychiatry
l973, l978 Postdoctoral Research Fellow, Fullbright Hays Program, Japan
1970-71 Assistant Professor, UCLA, School of Public Health and School of Social Welfare
Other Positions
1988-1990 Associate Editor, International Bulletin of Morita Therapy
1988-2003 Member, Board of Advisors, Mental Health Okamoto Foundation
l969-l978 Project Director, National Institute of Mental Health grants (Cross Ethnic, Suicide Observation Status, Post Hospital Care,
Disaster Response, Elderly Chronically Ill)
l964-l975 Research Anthropologist, Veterans Administration Central Research Unit
l967-l968 Research Fellow, NIMH, Japan
Awards
1997 Morita Prize, only one awarded to non-Japanese by Morita Therapy Association
1992 Kora Prize, only one awarded to non-Japanese by Morita Therapy Association
1989-2003 Mental Health Okamoto Memorial Foundation Grant, Japan
l973,l978 Fulbright Hays Research Grants, Japan
l967,l968 NDEA Title VI Grant, Japan
l967 NSF Summer Fellowship
Books Published
-Reynolds, David K. Morita Psychotherapy. , Berkeley:University of California Press, l976.
-Reynolds, David K. and Farberow, Norman L. Suicide: Inside and Out. Berkeley:University of California Press, l976.
-Kalish, Richard A. and Reynolds, David K. Death and Ethnicity: A Psychocultural Study. Los Angeles:University of Southern California
Press, l976.
-Reynolds, David K. and Farberow, Norman L. Endangered Hope: Psychiatric Aftercare and Self Destruction. Berkeley:University of
California Press, l977.
-Reynolds, David K. The Quiet Therapies. Honolulu:University Press of Hawaii, l980.
-Reynolds, David K. The Heart of the Japanese People. Tokyo:Nichieisha, l980.
-Reynolds, David K. and Farberow, Norman L. The Family Shadow: Sources of Suicide and Schizophrenia. Berkeley:University of
California Press, l98l.
-Reynolds, David K. Naikan Psychotherapy: Meditation for Self Development. Chicago:University of Chicago Press, l983.
-Reynolds, David K. Constructive Living. Honolulu:University of Hawaii Press, 1984.
-Reynolds, David K. Modern Aesop's Fables. Tokyo:Nichieisha, 1984.
-Reynolds, David K. Living Lessons. Tokyo:Asahi Shuppansha, 1984.
-Reynolds, David K. Playing Ball on Running Water. New York:Morrow, 1984.
-Reynolds, David K. Even in Summer the Ice Doesn't Melt. New York:Morrow, 1986.
-Reynolds, David K. Water Bears No Scars. New York: Morrow, 1987.
-Reynolds, David K. Constructive Living for Young People. Tokyo: Asahi, 1988.
-Reynolds, David K. Winning the Game of Life. Tokyo: Asahi, 1988.
-Reynolds, David K. Pools of Lodging for the Moon. New York: Morrow, 1989.
-Reynolds, David K. Flowing Bridges, Quiet Waters. Albany: SUNY Press, 1989.
-Reynolds, David K. A Thousand Waves. New York: Morrow, 1990.
-Reynolds, David K. Thirsty, Swimming in the Lake. New York: Morrow, 1991.
-Reynolds, David K. Rainbow Rising from a Stream. New York: Morrow, 1992.
-Reynolds, David K., ed. Plunging Through the Clouds. Albany: SUNY Press, 1993.
-Reynolds, David K. Reflections on the Tao te Ching. New York: Morrow, 1993.
-Reynolds, David K. Light Waves. Honolulu:University of Hawaii Press, 2001.
-Reynolds, David K. A Handbook for Constructive Living. New York: Morrow, 1996, U.of Hawaii Press, 2002.
-Reynolds, David K. Water, Snow, Water, Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2013.
Translations of Books into Japanese (Other translations in Chinese, Czech, Hebrew, Spanish, and German, etc.)
Nihonjin to Morita Ryoho, Natsumeisha, 1980.
Uchikara Mita Jisatsu, Sewashoten, 1984.
Nayamiwo Ikasu, Sogensha, 1986.
Kodotekina Ikikata, Sogensha, 1989.
Kono Isshunni Jibunwo Kaeru, Sanno Daigaku Shuppanbu, 1994.
Jibunwo Ikasu Kodo Kakumei, Kairyusha, 1996.
Jinseiwa Kodowo Matte Iru, KK Best Sellers (Wani Books), 1998.
Seikatsu Onchi ni Naranai, Hakuyosha, 2000.
Book Chapters Published
-Reynolds, David K. Constructive Living. In Kawahara, Ryuzo. Naikan Ryohono Rinsho. Shinkoigaku, 1998.
-Reynolds, David K. Constructive Living--Eastern and Western Psychology Combined. In Miki, Yasuhiko (In Japanese), 1998.
-Reynolds, David K. On Being Natural: Two Japanese Approaches to Healing. In Sheikh, A. A. and Sheikh, K. S., eds. Eastern and Western
Approaches to Healing. New York:Wiley, 1989.
-Reynolds, David K. Morita Therapy in America. In Ohara, K., ed. Morita Therapy: Theory and Practice. Tokyo:Kongen, 1987. (In
Japanese)
-Reynolds, David K. Japanese Models of Psychotherapy. In Norbeck, E. and Lock, M., eds. Health, Illness, and Medical Care in Japan.
Honolulu, University of Hawaii Press, 1987.
-Reynolds, David K. Japanese American Aging:A Game Perspective. In Kolker, A. and Ahmed, P., eds. Coping with Aging. New
York:Elsevier, l982.
-Reynolds, David K. Morita Psychotherapy. In Corsini, R., ed. Handbook of Innovative Psychotherapies. New York:Wiley,l98l.
-Reynolds, David K. Naikan Therapy. In Corsini, R., ed. Handbook of Innovative Psychotherapies. New York:Wiley,
l98l.
-Reynolds, David K. Psychocultural Perspectives on Death. In Ahmed, P., ed. Living and Dying with Cancer. New York:Elsevier, l98l.
-Reynolds, David K. Morita Therapy in America. In Kora, T. and Ohara, K., eds. Modern Morita Therapy. Tokyo:Hakuyosha, l977.
-Reynolds, David K. and Farberow, Norman L. Suicide in Aftercare Facilities. In Parad, H. et al., Emergency and Disaster Management.
New York:Charles Press, l976.
-Reynolds, David K., Kalish, Richard A., and Farberow, Norman L. A Cross Ethnic Study of Suicide Attitudes and Expectations in the United
States. In Farberow, N.L., ed. Suicide in Different Cultures. Baltimore:University Park Press, l975.
-Reynolds, David K. and Yamamoto, Joe. Morita Psychotherapy in Japan. In Masserman, Jules, ed., Current Psychiatric Therapies, 13, 219-
227, l973.
Articles Published
-Reynolds, David K. Morita Therapy and Constructive Living. Journal of Morita Therapy, 9 (1), 37-43, 1998.
-Reynolds, David K. Morita Therapy and Me. Journal of Morita Therapy, 7 (2), 198-200, 1996.
-Reynolds, David K. Kensetsutekina Ikikata (Constructive Living). Student Counseling Journal (Japan), 17(1), 74-80, 1996. (Japanese)
-Reynolds, David K. Adaptations of Morita Therapy. Japanese Journal of Psychotherapy, 21 (1), 45-51, 1995.
-Reynolds, David K. Morita therapy and Constructive Living. Journal of Morita Psychotherapy, 4(2), 161-165, 1993. (Japanese)
-Reynolds, David K. Morita and Naikan therapies--Similarities. Journal of Morita Therapy, 1(2), 159-163, 1990.
-Reynolds, David K. Meaningful life therapy. Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 13, 457-463, 1989.
-Reynolds, David K. Morita therapy and reality-centered living. Int. Bull. of Morita Therapy, 1(1), 3-5, 1988.
-Farberow, Norman L. and Reynolds, David K. Sources of schizophrenia within the family. Psychiatria Fennica, International Edition, 41-
51, 1981.
-Reynolds, David K. and Nelson, Franklyn L. Personality, life situation and life expectancy. Life Threatening Behavior, ll(2), 99-110, 1981.
-Reynolds, David K. Psychodynamic insight and Morita psychotherapy. Japanese Journal of Psychotherapy Research, 5(4), 58-60, l979.
-Reynolds, David K. Naikan therapy--an experiential view. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, 23(4), 252-264, l977.
-Kalish, R.A. and Reynolds, D. K. The role of age in death attitudes. Death Education, (2), l977.
-Reynolds, David K. and Kiefer, C.W. Cultural adaptability as an attribute of therapies: the case of Morita psychotherapy. Culture,
Medicine, and Psychiatry, l, 395-4l2, l977.
-Reynolds, David K. and Kalish, Richard A. Death rates, attitudes, and the ethnic press. Ethnicity, 3, 305-316, 1976.
-Reynolds, David K. and Moacanin, Radmila. Eastern therapy: Western patient. Japanese Journal of Psychotherapy Research, 3, 305-316,
l976.
-Kalish, Richard A., Reynolds, David K., and Farberow, Norman L. Community attitudes toward suicide. Community Mental Health
Journal, l0(3), 301-308,1974.
-Reynolds, David K. and Kalish Richard A. The social ecology of dying:Observations of wards for the terminally ill. Hospital and Community
Psychiatry, 25(3), l47-l52, l974.
-Reynolds, David K. and Kalish, Richard A. Anticipation of futurity as a function of ethnicity and age. Journal of Gerontology, 29(2), 224-
231, 1974.
-Reynolds, David K. and Kalish, Richard A. Work roles in death-related occupations. Journal of Vocational Behavior, 4223-235, l974.
-Kalish, Richard A. and Reynolds, David K. Phenomenological reality and postdeath contact. Journal for the Scientific Study of Religion, l2,
209-221, 1973.
-Reynolds, David K. and Farberow, Norman L. The suicidal patient: An inside view. Omega, 4(3), 229-24l, l973. Abstracted in Nursing
Digest, Human Behavior, and l975 Review of Psychiatry and Mental Health.
-Reynolds, David K. and Farberow, Norman L. Experiential research: An inside perspective on suicide and social systems. Life Threatening
Behavior, 3(4), 26l-269. l973. Abstracted in Health Education Monographs, l975.
-Reynolds, David K. and Yamamoto, Joe. East meets West: Moritist and Freudian psychotherapies. Science and Psychoanalysis, 21, l87-l93,
l972. Abstracted in Psychiatric Spectator, l972.
-Farberow, Norman L. and Reynolds, David K. Dyadic crisis suicides in mental hospital patients. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 78(l), 77-
85, l97l.
-Iwai, Hiroshi and Reynolds, David K. Morita therapy: The views from the West. American Journal of Psychiatry, l26(7), l03l-l036, l970.
-Ohara, Kenshiro and Reynolds, David K. Changing methods in Morita psychotherapy. International Journal of Social Psychiatry, l4(4),
305-310, l968.
And more than forty other articles in English, Japanese, Chinese and German.
Encyclopedia Articles
Japanese character, Naikan, Morita psychotherapy, in Wiley Encyclopedia of Psychology. New York, Wiley, 1984.
Also in Concise Encyclopedia of Psychology, 1987.
Mental illness and psychotherapy, in Encyclopedia of Japan, Kodansha/Brittanica, l984.
Book and Film Reviews
Design for Death. in Omega, 2(2), 119-120, 1971.
A Panorama of Suicide in Vita l973.
Grief and Mourning in Cross-Cultural Perspective in Medical Anthropology Newsletter l978.
East Asian Medicine in Urban Japan (Lock) in Quarterly Review of Biology 1981.
Time of Death in The Gerontologist, l7(3), 283-284, l977.
The Anatomy of Self (Doi) in Journal of Japanese Studies, 13(2), 496-498, 1987.
Morita Therapy (Fujita) in Japanese Journal of Psychotherapy, 13(1), 80-81, 1987 (in Japanese).
also in Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry, 11, 97-98, 1987.
The Body (Yuasa) in Journal of Asian Studies, 1988.
Papers Presented
(Papers in Japan were presented in Japanese)
-Morita psychotherapy in Japanese cultural context. Western Psychological Association, Los Angeles, l970.
-Japanese American aging--A game perspective. Society for Applied Anthropology, Miami, l97l.
-The psychotherapeutic contract in a Japanese hospital setting. American Anthropological Association, New York, l97l.
-East meets West:Moritist and Freudian psychotherapies. American Academy of Psychoanalysis, New York, l97l.
-Death and dying in the Los Angeles Mexican American community. International Association for Suicide Prevention, Mexico City, l972.
-Community attitudes toward suicide. International Association for Suicide Prevention, Mexico City, l972.
-The suicidal patient--An inside view. Southwestern Anthropological Association, Long Beach, 1972.
-Experiential research: An inside perspective on suicide and social systems. American Association of Suicidology, Houston, l973.
-Patienthood: An inside view. American Psychiatric Association, Detroit, l974.
-Experiential research and shadowing. American Anthropological Association, Mexico City, l974.
-Training mental health workers in time of disaster. American Association of Suicidology, Los Angeles, l976.
-Morita psychotherapy in the West. VI World Congress of Psychiatry, Honolulu, l977.
-Naikan psychotherapy in Japanese cultural context. American Anthropological Association, Houston, l977.
-What is psychotherapy? 7th National Congress of Psychiatry (Japan), Tokyo, l978.
-Innovative research tactics in psychiatric settings. American Anthropological Association, Los Angeles, l978.
-Naikan psychotherapy and the norm of reciprocity. Southwestern Anthropological Association, San Diego, l980.
-Eastern psychotherapies in Japan and the West. International Council of Psychologists, Los Angeles, l98l.
-Japanese models of psychotherapy. SSRC-sponsored panel, Health and Illness in Japan. American Anthropological Association, Chicago,
1983.
-Morita psychotherapy in America. Second National Congress of Morita Psychotherapy, Hamamatsu, Japan, 1984
-Morita psychotherapy: An American perspective. Third National Congress of Morita Psychotherapy, Tokyo, 1985.
-Advanced training. First International Association for Constructive Living, Washington D.C., 1988.
-A fresh perspective on Naikan. Twelfth National Congress of Naikan, Toyama, 1989.
-Meaningful Life Therapy. 1st International Congress of Meaningful Life Therapy, Hamamatsu, 1990.
-Is A Theory of Naikan Necessary? Thirteenth National Congress of Naikan, Nagoya, 1990.
-21st Century Naikan--An American Perspective. 1st International Congress of Naikan, Tokyo, 1991.
-Who Does Morita Therapy in Japan? Ninth National Congress of Morita Psychotherapy, Kyoto, 1991.
-Keynote Address. Tenth National Congress of Morita Psychotherapy, Shikoku, 1992.
-The Status of Morita Therapy in the United States. Second International Congress of Morita Therapy, Fukuoka, 1993.
-Using Tales in Morita Therapy and Constructive Living. 13th National Congress of Morita Psychotherapy, Saga, 1995.
-Morita Therapy, Constructive Living, and China. Third International Congress of Morita Therapy, Beijing, 1996.
-Morita Prize Address. Fifteenth National Congress of Morita Psychotherapy, Tokyo, 1997.
-Morita Therapy and Constructive Living. Fourth International Congress of Morita Therapy, Tokyo, 1999.
and more recent others.
Workshops
l98l National Association for Asian and Pacific American Education, Honolulu.
l98l Institute for Transcultural Studies, Los Angeles.
l98l Blaisdell Institute, Claremont Colleges, Claremont.
l982 Health Center Pacific, Maui.
1983 Kuroda Institute, Los Angeles.
1984 Health Center Pacific, Maui.
1985 San Francisco, New York, Miami, Maui.
1986 Columbia University, Health Center Pacific, Tokyo.
1987 Maui, Omega Institute and four MHA's in New York.
1988 Miami, Washington, D.C., Philadelphia, San Francisco, New York.
1989 Miami, Chattanooga, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Australia, New Zealand, New York, Los Angeles
1990 Chicago, New York, Washington, D.C., San Francisco, Los Angeles, Springfield, IL, Tokyo.
1991 Cleveland, New York, Virginia, Tokyo, Chiba, Miami
1992 East Coast, Portland, Japan
1993 Klamath Falls Indians, U. of Nebraska, Japan, San Francisco
1995 National Student Counseling Association, Japan, Tokyo
1997 Inochi no Denwa (Suicide Prevention Organization), Tokyo, Nara nd more recent others.
Clinical Experience
1974-79 University of Southern California, School of Medicine. Practice, training and supervision of psychiatric residents, clinical
psychology doctoral candidates, and psychiatric social workers.
1980-1991. Todo Institute. Practice, training, supervision.
1989-Present. Constructive Living Center. Practice, training, supervision.
198l-1986 Center Medical Clinic, Los Angeles. Practice.
1982 Health Center Pacific, Maui. Practice, training, supervision.
1976-2000 Training and practice at Morita therapy and Naikan clinics in Japan and Constructive Living Centers in the U.S.
Fieldwork
Japan: Twice annually since l967, totaling more than twenty years in Japan.
Attrition rates in mental health settings in Japan: 1985-1987
Nursing Care Facilities: (U.S.) l970, l977-l979; (Japan) l979-l980.
Disaster Sites (Indiana, Colorado, Idaho, California): l975-l977.
Family Ethnography: l973.
Psychiatric aftercare Facilities in U.S.: l972, l973.
Mental Hospitals in U.S.: l970, l975, l976.
Los Angeles Ethnic Groups: l966-l972
Media Interviews
-Radio/Television: US: KHJ KNBC KIKU KABC KMPC KNX KWIZ KPFK KSM KZOO KIQQ KCSN KGIL KATU KCBY NPR
L.A., N.Y., Cleveland, Miami, Honolulu, San Francisco, Chattanooga, Portland, etc.
Foreign: Canada, New Zealand, Australia, Japan
-Magazines: US: Time, Vogue (2), Human Behavior, Psychology Today, PHP, East/West, Yoga Journal, Men's Health, Cosmopolitan, New
Dimensions, Bottom Line, American Health, New Woman, Your Personal Best, Fitness, Self, Sun, Health Confidential, O Magazine
Foreign: Japan, China, New Zealand, Canada, Brazil
-Newspapers: New York Times, L.A. Times, Houston Chronicle, Asahi Shimbun, Japan Interpreter, Houston Post, Japan Times,
Honolulu Star Bulletin, Maui News, Hawaii Herald, Nihon Keizai Shimbun, L.A. Weekly, Nihon Nogyo Shimbun
Website Information
Constructive Living websites in English: http://constructiveliving1.weebly.com and http://constructiveliving2.weebly.com
Kindle book titles
Reflections on the Hua Hu Ching
Reflections on the Saying of the Desert Fathers
Idea Gusts: Constructive Living in Perspective
Joshu and Constructive Living
More Joshu and Constructive Living
Reflections on One Hundred Chinese Proverbs
Reflections on the Rule of St. Benedict
Constructive Living for Young People
Constructive Living Mixed Reflections
One Hundred Poems
Waterfalling
Waterfalling2
Rainbow Rising from a Stream
A Thousand Waves
Thirsty: Swimming in the Lake
Scattered Showers: Constructive Living Notes
365 Days of Reality's Reminders
The Ears Have It
Reflections of Self: Thoughts on the Imitation of Christ
Surfing Life: Reflections on the Confessions of St. Augusting
Still Surfing Life: Reflections on St. Augustine's Ten Homilies
Tides of Mind
Wind Waves
A Fountain: The Best of the Water Books
Wind Streaming
Reflections on the Blue Cliff Record
Situation and Self
Languages
English, Japanese, Spanish