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Saito Tamaki - Hikikomori: Adolescence without End - 9780816654598 - V9780816654598
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Hikikomori: Adolescence without End

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Description for Hikikomori: Adolescence without End Paperback. Translator(s): Angles, Jeffrey. Num Pages: 216 pages, 4 black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FPJ; HBJF; JHB; JHMC; JM. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 20. Weight in Grams: 318.


This is the first English translation of a controversial Japanese best seller that made the public aware of the social problem of hikikomori, or “withdrawal”—a phenomenon estimated by the author to involve as many as one million Japanese adolescents and young adults who have withdrawn from society, retreating to their rooms for months or years and severing almost all ties to the outside world. Saitō Tamaki’s work of popular psychology provoked a national debate about the causes and extent of the condition.


Since Hikikomori was published in Japan in 1998, the problem of social withdrawal has increasingly been ... Read more


Drawing on his own clinical experience with hikikomori patients, Saitō creates a working definition of social withdrawal and explains its development. He argues that hikikomori sufferers manifest a specific, interconnected series of symptoms that do not fit neatly with any single, easily identifiable mental condition, such as depression.


Rejecting the tendency to moralize or pathologize, Saitō sensitively describes how families and caregivers can support individuals in withdrawal and help them take steps toward recovery. At the same time, his perspective sparked contention over the contributions of cultural characteristics—including family structure, the education system, and gender relations—to the problem of social withdrawal in Japan and abroad.


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Product Details

Publisher
University of Minnesota Press United States
Number of pages
216
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Condition
New
Number of Pages
208
Place of Publication
Minnesota, United States
ISBN
9780816654598
SKU
V9780816654598
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About Saito Tamaki
Saitō Tamaki is a practicing psychiatrist and director of medical services at Sōfūkai Sasaki Hospital in Funabashi, Japan. He is the author of more than two dozen books, including Beautiful Fighting Girl (Minnesota, 2011).

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