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Translator’s Introduction: How to Diagnose an Invisible Epidemic

Jeffrey Angles


Hikikomori


Preface to the English Edition

Introduction


Part I. What Is Happening?

1. What Is Social Withdrawal?

2. The Symptoms and Development of Social Withdrawal

3. Psychological Ailments Accompanying Withdrawal

4. Is Social Withdrawal a Disease?

5. Hikikomori Systems


Part II. How to Deal with Social Withdrawal

6. Overcoming the Desire to Reason, Preach, and Argue

7. Important Information for the Family

8. The General Progress of Treatment

9. In Daily Life

10. The Sadness behind Violence in the Household

11. Treatment and Returning to Society

12. The Social Pathology of Withdrawal


Conclusion: Steps for the Future


Translator’s Notes

Bibliography

Index


Hikikomori

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      Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 20/03/2013
      ISBN13: 9780816654598, 978-0816654598
      ISBN10: 081665459X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis


      Table of Contents


      Contents


      Translator’s Introduction: How to Diagnose an Invisible Epidemic

      Jeffrey Angles


      Hikikomori


      Preface to the English Edition

      Introduction


      Part I. What Is Happening?

      1. What Is Social Withdrawal?

      2. The Symptoms and Development of Social Withdrawal

      3. Psychological Ailments Accompanying Withdrawal

      4. Is Social Withdrawal a Disease?

      5. Hikikomori Systems


      Part II. How to Deal with Social Withdrawal

      6. Overcoming the Desire to Reason, Preach, and Argue

      7. Important Information for the Family

      8. The General Progress of Treatment

      9. In Daily Life

      10. The Sadness behind Violence in the Household

      11. Treatment and Returning to Society

      12. The Social Pathology of Withdrawal


      Conclusion: Steps for the Future


      Translator’s Notes

      Bibliography

      Index


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