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Name
Tamaki Saito
Role
Psychologist
Books
Hikikomori: Adolescence Without End, Beautiful Fighting Girl
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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.
Saitō is notable for his study of hikikomori, a term he coined; he is internationally recognized as Japan's leading hikikomori expert.
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.
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)
Saito, 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)
Saitō, Tamaki (2012) Social Withdrawal: Adolescence without End. Trans. Jeffrey Angles. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.