Associate Professor at Kyoto University, Dr. Tajan is the former Vice-President and President of the International Mental Health Professionals Japan (2019-2023).
He attended Bordeaux University (France), Toulouse University (France), and Kyoto University Institute for Research in Humanities. He lives with his family in Kyoto.
French psychologist and psychoanalyst, Nicolas Tajan received the first Geneviève Haag award (psychoanalyst category, individual clinical work, 2022) from the International coordination between psychoanalyst psychotherapists and associate members caring for autistic people (CIPPA).
Nicolas Tajan is the author of Mental Health and Social Withdrawal in Japan: Beyond the Hikikomori Spectrum (Routledge 2021 – READ FULL TEXT) and Génération hikikomori (2017, in French).
His articles have appeared in peer reviewed journals such as Frontiers in Psychiatry, Japanese Studies, Asian Studies Review, Child and Human Development, Asian Journal of Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatrie de l’enfance et de l’adolescence, L’Information psychiatrique, The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, The Asia-Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy, Cipango, and Subjectivity.
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