ArticleCulture, medicine and psychiatry2016
Emplotting Hikikomori: Japanese Parents' Narratives of Social Withdrawal.
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- Understanding the experiences of hikikomori through the lens of the CHIME framework: connectedness, hope and optimism, identity, meaning in life, and empowerment; systematic review.BMC psychology · 2021Pooled it
- Yuri's Story: Memory, Relational Healing, and the Reflexive Logics of Art Therapy in Japanese Clinical Psychology.Culture, medicine and psychiatry · 2025Article
- An Analysis of Hikikomori in Haruki Murakami's Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage Through New Historicist Approach.Integrative psychological & behavioral science · 2025Article
- Prolonged Social Withdrawal During Adolescence: Transdiagnostic Syndrome or a New Psychiatric Entity?Child psychiatry and human development · 2024Article
- Hikikomori: A Scientometric Review of 20 Years of Research.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2023Review
- Social Withdrawal (Hikikomori) Conditions in China: A Cross-Sectional Online Survey.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
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Abstract
Hikikomori, often glossed as "social withdrawal," emerged as a sociomedical condition among Japanese youth at the end of the twentieth century, and it continues to fascinate and concern the public. Explanatory frameworks for hikikomori abound, with different stakeholders attributing it to individual psychopathology, poor parenting, and/or a lack of social support structures. This article takes an interpretive approach to hikikomori by exploring parents' narrative constructions of hikikomori children in support group meetings and in-depth interviews. I argue that some parents were able to find hope in hikikomori by 'emplotting' their children's experiences into a larger narrative about onset, withdrawal, and recovery, which helped them remain invested in the present by maintaining a sense of possibility about the future. Contrary to literature that examines hikikomori as an epidemic of isolated individuals, I demonstrate how parents play a key role in hikikomori through meaning-making activities that have the potential to shape their children's experiences of withdrawal.
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