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  • Can “ Pokémon GO ” rescue shut-ins (hikikomori) from their isolated world?

    Can “ Pokémon GO ” rescue shut-ins (hikikomori) from their isolated world?

    Article by Kato et al. published online in December 2016 in Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences Open access: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pcn.12481/full PS: “To date, there has been no evidence showing a correlation between the use of personal computers (PCs) and/or information technology (IT) and the occurrence of hikikomori, at least in Japan.”  

  • Le Hikikomori entre Idiome culturel et expression actuelle de la souffrance au passage de l’adolescence à l’âge adulte (De Luca 2016)

    L’Évolution Psychiatrique, Available online 26 July 2016, http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0014385516301517 Abstract Aim Hikikomori is a syndrome involving withdrawal into the home for a duration of more than 6 months, identified among Japanese teenagers and young adults. The cultural and sociological approach is central in Japan, where a psychiatric understanding has long been denied. We set out to demonstrate…

  • Japanese Parents’ Narratives of Social Withdrawal

    Emplotting Hikikomori: Japanese Parents’ Narratives of Social Withdrawal Article in Culture Medicine and Psychiatry · May 2016 DOI: 10.1007/s11013-016-9495-6 1st Ellen Rubinstein 11.8 · Rutgers Robert Wood Johnson Medical School, Somerset, New Jersey Abstract Hikikomori, often glossed as “social withdrawal,” emerged as a sociomedical condition among Japanese youth at the end of the twentieth century, and it continues to…

  • Social Anxiety Between Asian Americans and European Americans

    Comparing Social Anxiety Between Asian Americans and European Americans: An Examination of Measurement Invariance Article in Assessment · June 2016 DOI: 10.1177/1073191116656438 1st Alexander W. Krieg 10.95 · University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 2nd Yiyuan Xu 24.72 · University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa 3rd David Colin Cicero 27.9 · University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Abstract There have been over…

  • The Ecology of Withdrawal (Frontiers in Psychology)

    General Commentary ARTICLE Front. Psychol., 23 May 2016 | http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00764 The Ecology of Withdrawal. Commentary: The NEET and Hikikomori spectrum: Assessing the risks and consequences of becoming culturally marginalized Michael E. W. Varnum* and Jung Y. Kwon http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2016.00764/full?utm_source=newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Psychology-w27-2016

  • Toute une histoire – Hikikomori

    Toute une histoire – Hikikomori

    « Au Japon, ils seraient 260.000 adolescents et jeunes adultes à décider soudainement de se couper physiquement du monde pour une durée indéterminée. » FAUX Il s’agit d’environ 700.000 personnes. 260.000 est une sous-estimation. Ce n’est pas soudain : c’est toujours progressif, avec des signes au collège, puis une aggravation au lycée et une installation dans le retrait…

  • Japanese Postmodern Social Renouncers

    My article about hikikomori is still free to read (top-viewed articles published in 2015, Palgrave journals) at the Social & Cultural Studies page on the Palgrave journals website. http://www.palgrave-journals.com/sub/journal/v8/n3/full/sub201511a.html  

  • Hikikomori / Frontiers in Psychiatry

      OPEN ACCESS article including a case from CANADA Internet Addiction, Hikikomori Syndrome, and the Prodromal Phase of Psychosis Stip E, Thibault A, Beauchamp- Chatel A and Kisely S (2016) Internet Addiction, Hikikomori Syndrome, and the Prodromal Phase of Psychosis. Front. Psychiatry 7:6. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2016.00006

  • Oblomov

    Wikipedia: “The second novel by Russian writer Ivan Goncharov, first published in 1859. Oblomov is the central character of the novel, portrayed as the ultimate incarnation of the superfluous man, a symbolic character in 19th-century Russian literature. Oblomov is a young, generous nobleman who seems incapable of making important decisions or undertaking any significant actions.…

  • Bartleby

    In English : a blog with full text, comments and videos. http://genius.com/Herman-melville-bartleby-the-scrivener-a-story-of-wall-street-annotated In French