Tag: in english
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New open access article about hikikomori, Jan 2016
Title: Hikikomori, a Phenomenon of Social Withdrawal and Isolation in Young Adults Marked by an Anomic Response to Coping Difficulties: A Qualitative Study Exploring Individual Experiences from First- and Second-Person Perspectives By Roseline Kim Fong Yong and Yoshihiro Kaneko Warning 1 The article is published in a journal included in Jeffrey Beall’s list of…
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Adolescence, school non-attendance, counseling, Japan
Free access to my article #Adolescents‘ #school non-attendance and the spread of psychological #counseling in #Japan http://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/21507686.2015.1029502#.VR9z6mZ6tJh …
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Japanese post-modern social renouncers
My article in Subjectivity, has been ranked among the top-viewed articles published in 2015 and has been made free-to-read until January 31st, 2016 at the Social & Cultural Studies page on the Palgrave journals website.
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BAJS conference : my presentation’s references
Current Research and Perspectives on Socially Withdrawn Youths (Hikikomori), Nicolas Tajan, Kyoto University References American Psychiatric Association (2013) Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. 5th Edition: DSM-5 [Paperback]. Washington DC: American Psychiatric Publishing. Arnett, J., Žukauskiene, R., Sugimura K., (2014) The new life stage of emerging adulthood at ages 18–29 years: implications for mental health.…
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British Association of Japanese Studies (BAJS), 31 October, Nagoya
Health and Well-Being in Contemporary Japan This symposium brings together four papers addressing issues of health and well-being. Papers will be 20-30 minutes, and there will be extensive time given to discussion. Date and Time: 31 October 2015, 2pm-6pm Venue: Aichi Prefectural University (Nagakute Campus), Nagoya. Room H203. Access map is here. Campus map is here…
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Shaking Tokyo / Video
I just discovered Shaking Tokyo was on youtube.
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Comments about Prof. Kato T.’s interview (the daily mail)
Prof. Kato Takahiro is right when he says: “Most case studies have only focused on the psychological aspect, but hikikomori is not just about mental illness“ However, I would partly disagree when he says: “It’s very rare to find hikikomori in poor families” and ‘Majority of hikikomori are graduated people, after graduating university they became…
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Narratives of Hikikomori / 2015.9 TAJAN (article in Subjectivity)
See my latest publication in the journal Subjectivity “Narratives of Hikikomori”
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NEET-Hikikomori spectrum / Uchida & Norasakkunkit 2015.8
http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01117/abstract
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Free access / final version of my article (review of hikikomori)
The final version of my article (review of hikikomori) with full bibliographical details is now available online. Free access for the first 50 viewers: http://authors.elsevier.com/a/1RSk~oiXHqZIZ Review of Hikikomori on Kudos This article provides a review of psychiatrists’ studies on social withdrawal (hikikomori), bring out the main themes and recurrent problems, and s…
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