Article: A New Form of Social Withdrawal in Japan: a Review of Hikikomori
A medical, rather than sociological take on the phenomenon of hikikomori: Alan R. Teo (University of California, San Francisco), "A New Form of Social Withdrawal in Japan: a Review of Hikikomori " ("International Journal of Social Psychiatry", 56 [2], March 2010: pp. 178-85).
Quote: "Patients are mostly adolescent and young adult men who become recluses in their parents' homes for months or years. They withdraw from contact with family, rarely have friends, and do not attend school or hold a job. Never described before the late 1970s, hikikomori has become a silent epidemic with tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands of cases now estimated in Japan."
A two-page response by a group of doctors reporting on a similar case in Spain was published in a subsequent issue of the same journal (56 [5], September 2010: pp. 558-9): http://isp.sagepub.com/content/56/5/558.extract
A medical, rather than sociological take on the phenomenon of hikikomori: Alan R. Teo (University of California, San Francisco), "A New Form of Social Withdrawal in Japan: a Review of Hikikomori " ("International Journal of Social Psychiatry", 56 [2], March 2010: pp. 178-85).
Quote: "Patients are mostly adolescent and young adult men who become recluses in their parents' homes for months or years. They withdraw from contact with family, rarely have friends, and do not attend school or hold a job. Never described before the late 1970s, hikikomori has become a silent epidemic with tens, perhaps hundreds, of thousands of cases now estimated in Japan."
A two-page response by a group of doctors reporting on a similar case in Spain was published in a subsequent issue of the same journal (56 [5], September 2010: pp. 558-9): http://isp.sagepub.com/content/56/5/558.extract
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