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Acute social withdrawal (hikikomori) is an epidemic in Japan. FREE ACCESS https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1UjO~_ggEwIEDM

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There are three traumatic dimensions of hikikomori survivors: the trigger of bullying, the traumatic effects of social isolation, and family trauma.

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Hikikomori is a struggle inside the home and outside social institutions, against the contemporary practices of the mental health field.

Dr Nicolas Tajan
National Institute of Mental Health – National Center of Neurology and Psychiatry

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This page is a summary of: Traumatic dimensions of hikikomori : a Foucauldian note, Asian Journal of Psychiatry, March 2017, Elsevier,
DOI: 10.1016/j.ajp.2017.02.027.
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