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Die Japan Times berichtet über die erste Studie zum
Phänomen des sozialen Rückzugs in Japan. |
JONES schildert u. a. wie sich die mediale
Aufmerksamkeit zum Thema Hikikomori entwickelt hat:
"In
the mid-1980's, young men began showing up at Dr. Tamaki Saito's
office who were lethargic and uncommunicative and spent most of
their days in their rooms. »I didn't have a name for it,« Saito told
me one Friday evening at Sofukai Sasaki Hospital outside Tokyo,
where he's the medical director. Saito is soft-spoken with sleepy
eyes and thick black hair that he brushes off his forehead as he
talks. For the last decade he has been Japan's reigning expert on
hikikomori, and his office shelves are filled with books he has
written on the subject, including »How to Rescue Your Child From
Hikikomori.«
»Initially, I diagnosed it as a type of depression or personality
disorder, or schizophrenia,« Saito went on to say. But as he treated
an increasing number of patients with similar symptoms, he used the
term hikikomori for the problem. Soon after, the media latched on to
the phenomenon, dubbing the shut-ins »the lost generation,« »the
missing million« and »the ultimate in social parasitism« and making
hikikomori the focus of dozens of books, magazine articles and films
- including a documentary, »Home,« in which a filmmaker tracked the
life of his shut-in brother."
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KUNZE, Anne (2006): Lasst mich in Ruhe!
Manche Menschen haben so viel Angst vor der Welt, dass sie ihr
Zimmer nicht mehr verlassen. Oft für Jahre, manchmal sogar für
Jahrzehnte. Unsere Autorin hat sich auf die Suche nach ihrer
Cousine gemacht, die sie noch nie gesehen hat,
in: ZEIT Wissen, Juni
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