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Mental Health and Social Withdrawal in Contemporary Japan.

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dc.contributor.author Tajan, Nicolas.
dc.date.accessioned 2021-12-06T01:35:00Z
dc.date.available 2021-12-06T01:35:00Z
dc.date.issued 2021
dc.identifier.isbn : 978-1-351-26080-0 (ebk)
dc.identifier.uri ${sadil.baseUrl}/handle/123456789/1326
dc.description book, 273 p. en_US
dc.description.abstract This book examines the phenomenon of social withdrawal in Japan, which ranges from school nonattendance to extreme forms of isolation and confinement, known as hikikomori. Based on extensive original research, including interview research with a range of practitioners involved in dealing with the phenomenon, the book outlines how hikikomori expresses itself, how it is treated and dealt with, and how it has been perceived and regarded in Japan over time. The author, a clinical psychologist with extensive experience of practice, argues that the phenomenon although socially unacceptable is not homogenous and can be viewed not as a mental disorder, but as an idiom of distress, a passive and effective way of resisting the many great pressures of Japanese schooling and society more widely. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Routledge, Taylor & Francis en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries Japan Anthropology Workshop series;
dc.subject mental health en_US
dc.subject health issues en_US
dc.subject Japan and Japanese society en_US
dc.title Mental Health and Social Withdrawal in Contemporary Japan. en_US
dc.title.alternative Beyond the Hikikomori Spectrum. en_US
dc.type Book en_US


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