TY  - BOOK
AU  - Tajan,Nicolas
TI  - Mental health and social withdrawal in contemporary Japan: beyond the hikikomori spectrum 
T2  - Japan anthropology workshop series
SN  - 9781351260787
AV  - RJ502.J3 
U1  - 362.198928900952 23
PY  - 2020///
CY  - London
PB  - Routledge
KW  - Youth
KW  - Mental health
KW  - Japan
KW  - Students
KW  - Mental health services
KW  - Social isolation
KW  - Alienation (Social psychology)
N2  - This book examines the phenomenon of social withdrawal in Japan, which ranges from school non-attendance to extreme forms of isolation and confinement, known as hikikomori. Based on extensive original research including interview research with a range of practitioners involved in dealing with the phenomenon, the book outlines how hikikomori expresses itself, how it is treated and dealt with and how it has been perceived and regarded in Japan over time. The author, a clinical psychologist with extensive experience of practice, argues that the phenomenon although socially unacceptable is not homogenous, and can be viewed not as a mental disorder, but as an idiom of distress, a passive and effective way of resisting the many great pressures of Japanese schooling and of Japanese society more widely
UR  - https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781351260800
UR  - http://www.oclc.org/content/dam/oclc/forms/terms/vbrl-201703.pdf
ER  -