Tamaki Saitō

Japanese psychologist and critic (born 1961)

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Tamaki Saitō (斎藤環, Saitō Tamaki, born September 24, 1961) is a Japanese psychologist and critic. He specializes in the psychiatry of puberty and adolescence. Saitō is Director of Medical Service at Sofukai Sasaki Hospital in Funabashi, Chiba.^[1]

Saitō is notable for his study of hikikomori, a term he coined;^[2] he is internationally recognized as Japan's leading hikikomori expert.^[2]^[3]

Personal history

Saito was born in Kitakami, Iwate. In 1980 he graduated from Morioka First High School and matriculated into the University of Tsukuba the same year; graduating in 1986 from the medical faculty with a specialization in Environmental Ecology. In 1990 he completed a doctoral course in medicine under the leadership of Hiroshi Inamura.

Publications

Bunmyakubyō--Lacan/Bateson/Maturana (文脈病――ラカン/ベイトソン/マトゥラーナ), Context disease--Lacan/Bateson/Maturana 1998
Shakaiteki hikikomori--Owaranai Shishunki (社会的ひきこもり――終わらない思春期), Social withdrawal--Adolescence without End 1998
Sento bishojo no seishinbunseki (戦闘美少女の精神分析), Psychoanalysis of Beautiful Fighting Girl 2000
Gekiron! hikikomori (激論！ひきこもり), Argument! hikikomori (co-authored with Sadatsugu Kudo) 2001
'Hikikomori' kyushutu manual (「ひきこもり」救出マニュアル), 'Hikikomori' rescue manual 2002
OK? Hikikomori OK! (OK?ひきこもりOK!), OK? Hikikomori OK! 2003
Hikikomori bunkaron (ひきこもり文化論), On Hikikomori culture 2003
Kairi no pop skill (乖離のポップ・スキル), Pop skill of Dissociation 2004
Bungaku no choukou (文学の徴候), Symptom of the literature 2004
Ikinobiru tame no Lacan (生き延びるためのラカン), Lacan for survival 2006
Media ha sonzai shinai (メディアは存在しない), Media does not exist 2007
Artist wa kyokaisenjou de odoru (アーティストは境界線上で踊る), Artists dance on the borderline 2007
Bungaku no dansou--Sekai/Shinsai/Character (文学の断層――セカイ・震災・キャラクター) Dislocation of the literature--Sekai/Disaster/Character 2008
Kankei no kagaku toshite no bungaku (関係の化学としての文学), Literature as chemistry of relationships 2009
Bungaku no seishinbunseki (「文学」の精神分析), Psychoanalysis of 'Literature' 2009
Hikikomori kara mita mirai--SIGN OF THE TIMES 2005−2010 (ひきこもりから見た未来――SIGN OF THE TIMES 2005−2010) The future seen from hikikomori--SIGN OF THE TIMES 2005−2010 2010
Character seishinbunseki (キャラクター精神分析) Character psychoanalysis 2011

Translation in English

Saitō, Tamaki (2007) "Otaku Sexuality" in Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., and Takayuki Tatsumi ed., Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-4974-7 (with a foreword by Mari Kotani)
Saitō, Tamaki (2009) "The Asymmetry of Masculine/ Feminine Otaku Sexuality: Moe, Yaoi and Phallic Girls" in Ayelet Zohar, ed., Postgender: Gender, Sexuality and Performativity in Japanese Culture. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing. ISBN 9781443809900.
Saitō, Tamaki (2011) Beautiful Fighting Girl. Trans. J. Keith Vincent and Dawn Lawson. Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press. ISBN 978-0-8166-5451-2 (with a foreword by Hiroki Azuma)^[4]^[5]
Saitō, Tamaki (2012) Social Withdrawal: Adolescence without End. Trans. Jeffrey Angles. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.

References

^ Minutes of Forum "Have Young People Lost Their Dreams? A Portrait of Young People in Modern Society" (March 2005). Retrieved on 13 October 2008.
^ ^a ^b Maggie Jones (2006-01-15). "Shutting Themselves In". The New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 2014-01-17.
^ "Japan: The Missing Million" (20 October 2002). Retrieved on 13 October 2008.
^ Saitō, Tamaki (2011). Beautiful Fighting Girl. ISBN 978-0816654512.
^ Ruh, Brian (26 July 2011). "You Fight like a Girl - Brain Diving". Anime News Network.

External links

Researcher Information Page TRIOS of University of Tsukuba
Department of Social Psychiatry and Mental Health, Faculty of Medicine, University of Tsukuba
Tamaki Saitō's website (in Japanese)
Sofukai Sasaki Hospital website (in Japanese)