In 1974, a psychology course was established in the Graduate School of Letters. Following this event, during the last 30 or more years. the course has developed and played an active. and a central role in teaching psychology and research in the central districts of Japan. However, considering recent changes and future perspectives in psychology, a new policy and a framework are necessary for meeting the social requirements of this discipline and for promoting its development. The psychology course was reestablished in the Graduate School of Psychological and Physical Science in April 2006 that was independent of the Graduate school of Letters, for the purpose of understanding human beings and for supporting their interpersonal relationships based on the standpoint of mind-body correlations and psychosomatic science, which holds that "mental" problems should not be understood separately from "physical" problems.
Psychology
The psychology program includes the master's course (the pre ph.D. course) and the ph.D. course that is for those aspiring to be teachers and/or researchers in universities. The master's course consists of two courses. The one is a basic psychology course covering a wide area of psychology, such as Cognitive, Behavioral, Social, Industrial, Personality, Developmental and Mathematical Psycology. The other is a training course for clinical psychologists. In April 1998, the course was approved as a Class 1 graduate course, qualifying successful examinees to sit for the licensing examination for clinical psychologists. Since then, many able young people have graduated from this course and are working at various facilities,such as schools, hospitals, etc.
