TOKYO A Japanese professor on Wednesday launched what he said was the world's first web-based psychotherapy sessions available via mobile phone, as the country grapples with agrowing problem of depression.
The interactive service offers cognitive therapy sessions that identify a person's level of depression by asking questions about his or her sleeping and eating habits, weight change, and emotional well-being.
Using their mobile phones which are also widely substituted in Japan as wallets, train tickets, books, and television people can easily access the service.
"I think this can be helpful for people in times of need or when they feel a little blue, as a form of daily prevention against depression," Keio University Professor Yutaka Ohno, who launched the project, told .
"For those who are already following medical treatment, it may act as a supplement," said Ohno, who spearheaded Cognitive Therapy in Japan, a type of psychotherapy first developed by American psychiatrist Aaron Beck in the 1960s.
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