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Chargement... Hikikomori: Adolescence without Endpar Saito Tamaki
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. When I picked up this book, I thought it was going to be about the trend of emerging adulthood as seen in the modern Japanese culture, and was really interested to see how it compared to the American wave of post-college emerging adults. However, this book addresses a fairly specific psychological disorder -- social withdrawal -- that, although it happens most frequently in young adults, does not necessarily mirror the American trend of emergent adulthood. As the author points out, the Japanese family unit is substantially different than the Western one, and the situations discussed in Saito's primary research are radically different than what would normally be tolerated in an American family. As someone who bridges Eastern and Western culture, I found this to be an interesting read, though it does not fit into my areas of research and study as much as I initially thought it would. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
This is the first English translation of a controversial Japanese best seller that made the public aware of the social problem of hikikomori, or "withdrawal"--a phenomenon estimated by the author to involve as many as one million Japanese adolescents and young adults who have withdrawn from society, retreating to their rooms for months or years and severing almost all ties to the outside world. Saitō Tamaki's work of popular psychology provoked a national debate about the causes and extent of the condition. Since Hikikomori was published in Japan in 1998, the problem of social withdrawal has increasingly been recognized as an international one, and this translation promises to bring much-needed attention to the issue in the English-speaking world. According to the New York Times, "As a hikikomori ages, the odds that he'll re-enter the world decline. Indeed, some experts predict that most hikikomori who are withdrawn for a year or more may never fully recover. That means that even if they emerge from their rooms, they either won't get a full-time job or won't be involved in a long-term relationship. And some will never leave home. In many cases, their parents are now approaching retirement, and once they die, the fate of the shut-ins--whose social and work skills, if they ever existed, will have atrophied--is an open question." Drawing on his own clinical experience with hikikomori patients, Saitō creates a working definition of social withdrawal and explains its development. He argues that hikikomori sufferers manifest a specific, interconnected series of symptoms that do not fit neatly with any single, easily identifiable mental condition, such as depression. Rejecting the tendency to moralize or pathologize, Saitō sensitively describes how families and caregivers can support individuals in withdrawal and help them take steps toward recovery. At the same time, his perspective sparked contention over the contributions of cultural characteristics--including family structure, the education system, and gender relations--to the problem of social withdrawal in Japan and abroad. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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