A leading psychiatrist offers not only the most satisfying explanation of Japanese behaviour yet written, but a key to new understanding of all basic human needs.
This volume brings together twenty-six of Professor Doi's principal papers on the subject of the Japanese psyche and the subject of dependency (amae) published in English over the last fifty years, beginning with his paper on Japanese Psychiatry (1955) and concluding with 'Are Psychological Concepts of Japanese Origin Relevent?', 2002, some of ...
Western ideological traditionally emphasises the concepts of individualism, privacy, freedom, and independence with the prevailing ethos relegating dependency to a disparaged status. In Japanese society, the divergence from these western ideals can be found in the concept of amae (perhaps best translated as "indulgent dependency") which is part of ...
A Japanese psychiatrist discusses the nature of the self--as an entity of its own and as a part of a larger whole, society--and how these two sides work for and against each other.
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