After her father died in 1996, Chizuko Tezuka found herself more and more depressed. Eventually the emotion was so overwhelming that she took absence of leave from her post as associate professor in Keio University's International Center in Tokyo, and sought help.
She knew anger was a problem. "I'd counseled an African student. While his rage horrified and terrified me, he also demonstrated how releasing anger can be liberating. It started me wondering: how do Japanese cope with their anger?"
Knowing collage to be a form of therapy, she began cutting images out of magazines and sticking them onto paper. "Seeing my first attempt, an art-therapist noted the figure of a girl and adult male on a suspension bridge, and wondered if maybe I had a problem with my father. Seeing a later image, she said the same of my mother."