Prof. Naohiko Mimura, who taught me Gendlin's philosophy

As well as Donata Schoeller, Naohiko Mimura is one of the keynote lecturers in the following Conference Program:

Keynote Lecture. Naohiko Mimura: Gendlin and New Phenomenology: Application to Rehabilitation Medicine

Program | Conference of the Nordic Society for Phenomenology Sensory Methodologies

He was my supervisor when I was enrolled in the M.A. program at the Department of Philosophy.

His original specialty was and is the theory of the body as developed in Husserl's posthumous manuscripts, such as "Ideas II." Since 2009, however, he has been writing continuously about Gendlin's philosophy. He has also written about Arakawa & Gins, mentioned in "Saying what we mean," as one of the administrators of their posthumous manuscripts and how they interacted with Gendlin. He has recently applied Gendlin's philosophy to the neurocognitive rehabilitation proposed by Carlo Perfetti.

His writings on Gendlin's philosophy

Mimura, N. (2009a). Gendlin und Husserl: Phänomenologie der Fortentwicklung (carrying forward) [in Japanese]. Dilthey-Forschung (Dilthey Gesellschaft in Japan), 20, 63–79.

Mimura, N. (2009b). Gendlin and postmodernism: logic of process [in Japanese]. Essays and Studies by Members of the Faculty of Letters (Kansai University), 59 (3), 1–26.

Mimura, N. (2011a). Intentional implication and experiencing: phenomenology as Focusing [in Japanese]. Archê: Annual Review of the Kansai Philosophical Association, 19, 60–74.

Mimura, N. (2011b). Something there and not there: new phenomenology proposed by Gendlin [in Japanese]. Husserl studies in Japan, 9. 15–27.

Mimura, N. (2012a). Beschreibende und zergliedernde Psychologie und Experiencing-Theorie: Gendlin Aufnahme von Dilthey [in Japanese with German abstract]. Dilthey-Forschung (Dilthey Gesellschaft in Japan), 23, 74–88.

Mimura, N. (2012b). The re-experience [Nacherleben]: what we experience and how it is experienced: an analysis of Dilthey and Gendlin [in Japanese]. Essays and Studies by Members of the Faculty of Letters (Kansai University), 62 (2), 27–48.

Mimura, N. (2013a). Investigation of the IOFI principle in Gendlin’s philosophy [in Japanese]. Essays and Studies by Members of the Faculty of Letters (Kansai University), 62 (4), 83–101.

Mimura, N. (2013b). Qualitative research and Thinking at the Edge: Gendlin’s philosophy [in Japanese]. Essays and Studies by Members of the Faculty of Letters (Kansai University), 63 (3), 53–76.

Mimura, N. (2013c). Widening the first person perspective through the body: phenomenology as a ‘second person science’ [in Japanese]. Japanese Journal of Transpersonal Psychology/Psychiatry, 13 (1), 24–33.

Mimura, N. (2015). Gendlin’s early philosophy and the theory of experiencing (Philosophy that continues to question experience, Vol. 1) [in Japanese]. Kyoto: ratik.

Mimura, N. (2016). Is felt sense the bodily feeling? [in Japanese]. Essays and Studies by Members of the Faculty of Letters (Kansai University), 65 (3-4), 1–23.

Mimura, N. (2018). Felt meaning in poetry: a study of manuscripts by Arakawa & Gins [in Japanese with English abstract]. Bulletin of the Institute of Oriental and Occidental Studies (Kansai University), 51, 79–100.

Mimura, N. (2022). Focusing and neurocognitive rehabilitation: the role of metaphors [in Japanese]. Journal of the Japanese Society of Neurocognitive Rehabilitation, 21, 21–32.