PSYCO341 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Morita Therapy, Neurosis, Social Stigma
1 May 2014
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Chapter 12: mental health: hikikomori, unique japan condition, loosely translates as social withdrawal. Usually involves japanese high school students who decide they don"t want to go to school perhaps because of bullying. Typically you just shut yourself in a room. These including the decreasing valuation of work due to economic comfort of japan, the spread of more strike parents, and having job security and predictability due to the structure of economy. Therapeutic intervention like rental sisters ( act as your sisters) to help you get out of the room: only occurs in japan due to culture. The reaction of parents is different in japan ( they let him stay their). They belief a direct approach (get into the room and break it down) will cause suicide. Some cultures have it but unique to japan only. Thus seems to suggest that culture is implicated in the expression and experience of psychopatholoy.
