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  • Taijin kyôfushô (DSM-5)

    Taijin kyôfushô as it appears in the fifth version of DSM ” Taijin kyôfushô (”interpersonal fear disorder in Japanese”) is a cultural syndrome characterized by anxiety about and avoidance of interpersonal situations due to the thought, feeling, or conviction that one’s appearance and actions in social interactions are inadequate or offensive to others. In the…

  • Hikikomori, Evolution psychiatrique (article 2013)

    État des lieux, points communs et différences entre des jeunes adultes retirants sociaux en France et au Japon (Hikikomori) Un certain nombre de cas de retrait social majeur chez des adolescents et jeunes adultes, a été constaté ces dernières années en Europe, en particulier en France où les cliniciens et travailleurs socioéducatifs sont de plus…

  • L’organisation du système éducatif japonais par OBA Jun, Université de Hiroshima

    Excellente synthèse sur l’organisation du système éducatif japonais actualisée chaque année par le professeur OBA Jun de l’université de Hiroshima. http://home.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/oba/index-f.html Voir notamment le graphique 50 sur le nombre de cas d’absentéisme scolaire.

  • Suicide after Ijime in France and Japan

    Boy on high school baseball club kills self after repeat scolding by coach OKAYAMA — A student assistant to a high school baseball team committed suicide here last year after the team coach verbally attacked him repeatedly, the Mainichi Shimbun has learned. According to the Okayama Prefectural Board of Education, the 16-year-old student at Okayama…

  • ” Pathology seen in French Hikikomori ”

    Seishin Shinkeigaku Zasshi. 2012;114(10):1173-9. [Article in Japanese] Furuhashi T, Figueiredo C, Pionnié-Dax N, Fansten M, Vellut N, Castel PH. Source Department of Psychopathology & Psychotherapy, Graduate School of Medicine/Center for Student Counseling, Nagoya University. Abstract Young people who meet the definition of “Hikikomori” have come to be seen in France since around 2008. However, simply “fitting the definition” does not necessarily…

  • Hikikomori in Nature (Journal of Science, 2004 & 2011)

    Two short quotations extracted from two articles published by the International Journal of Science ” Nature “. Made in Japan, Nature, 474, 541–542, (30 June 2011): ” Japan’s economy is stagnant, and even its high-tech manufacturing base is being edged out by countries such as China and South Korea. Its population is greying. Its youngsters…

  • Hikikomori : ces jeunes enfermés chez eux (French magazine)

    Un dossier sur le hikikomori paru dans le numéro de Janvier/Fevrier du magazine “Cerveau et Psycho”. Ecrit par le journaliste Marc Gozlan qui a interrogé le psychiatre japonais Kato Takahiro, la psychiatre française M. Guedj-Bourdiau, le psychiatre-psychanalyste français Serge Tisseron (et moi même !).

  • Selected Bibliography about Hikikomori: articles in English (1986-2012)

    Selected Bibliography about Social Withdrawal (hikikomori) and School Absenteism (futôkô), from 1986 to 2012. All the references are academic articles, in English, except two in French and one in Italian. *** Borovoy, Amy. 2008. “Japan’s hidden youths: Mainstreaming the emotionally distressed in Japan.” Culture, Medicine and Psychiatry (32): 52–56. Chong, Stella Suk-ching, and Kar-Mon Chan.…

  • Late Bloomers ? レイブル ?

    This event takes place the 23rd of November simultaneously at Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo. http://osaka1gan.jp/kaigi2012 Their website is interesting also because of the guidebook and the newly coined word “late bloomers”   http://osaka1gan.jp/

  • Hikikomori en Barcelona ! バルセロナのひきこもり !!

    このブログは日本語で http://totteokiinfo.blogspot.jp/2009/01/hikikomori.html