Understanding Amae
The Japanese Concept of Need-love
Published on 7. July 2005
Book
Hardback
204 pages
978-1-901903-28-7 (ISBN)
Description
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 which are published here for the first time, Pre-eminent among Japanese psychiatrists, Professor Doi gained international fame with the publication of The Anatomy of Dependence in 1973.
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Folkestone
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Laminated cover
Illustrations
204 pp.
Dimensions
Height: 250 mm
Width: 180 mm
Weight
600 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-901903-28-7 (9781901903287)
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Person
Takeo Doi was born in 1920 and graduated from Tokyo University in 1942. In 1950, he went on to study at the Meninger School of Psychiatry in Topeka, Kansas, which marked the beginning of his many visits to the United States. While serving as psychiatrist-in-chief at St Luke's International Hospital, Tokyo, Doi initiated seminars in psychotherapy at Tokyo School of Medicine. He subsequently became professor at Tokyo University and then later appointed director of the National Institute of Mental Health, Tokyo. His seven books concerning amae were published by the Kobundo press between 1971 and 2001, and his eight-volume selected writings, Doi Takeo senshu, were published by Iwanami Shoten in 2000.
Content
Preface; Foreword; 1 Some Aspects of Japanese Psychiatry; 2 Japanese Language as an Expression of Japanese Psychology; 3 Amae: A Key Concept for Understanding Japanese personality Structure; 4 Morita Therapy and Psychoanalysis; 5 Some Thoughts on Helplessness and the Desire to be Loved; 6 Psychoanalytic Therapy and 'Western Man': A Japanese View; 7 Giri-Ninjo: An Interpretation; 8 Japanese Psychology, Dependency Need and Mental Health; 9 A Psychiatrist's View on Zeirgeist; 10 Psychotherapy as 'Hide-and-Seek'; 12 The Japanese Patterns of Communication and the Concept of Amae; 13 Omote and Ura: Concepts Derived from the Japanese Two-fold Structure of Consciousness; 14 Higaisha-ishiki: The Psychology of Revolting Youth in Japan; 15 Uchimura Kanzo: Japanese Christianity in Comparative Perspective; 16 Psychotherapy - A Cross-cutural Perspective from Japan; 17 The Thorn in the Chysanthemum: Suicide and Economic Success in Modern Japan; 18 The Concept of Amae and its Psychoanalytic Implications; 19 The Japanese Psyche: Myth and Reality; 20 The Cultural Assumptions of Psychoanalysis; 21 On the Concept of Amae; 22 Amae and Transference-Love; 23 Psychoanalysis in a Cross-cultural Context: A Japanese View; 24 Foreword to Japanese Childrearing; 25 Amae and the Western Concept of Love; 26 Is 'Narcissistic' Pejorative?; 27 Are Psychological Concepts of Japanese Origin Relevant?; Index of Names; General Index