The Anatomy of Self: Individual Versus Society - Softcover

Doi, Takeo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0870119028 ISBN 13: 9780870119026

Publisher: Kodansha America, Inc, 1989

Synopsis

This work is an exploration of the role of the individual in Japan and Japanese concepts of self-awareness, communication and relationships.

About this title

Review:

"For anyone wishing to gain fresh insights into the relationship between the study of psychology and culture, the relationship between language and mind, as well as that between the Americans and the Japanese, this book can only be considered required reading." -Edward T. Hall, Ph.D.

--Edward T Hall

About the Author:

Takeo Doi (b. 1920), M.D., has served as a professor at the University of Tokyo and International Christian University, Tokyo, and is one of Japan's leading psychiatrists. Born in Tokyo, he graduated from the University of Tokyo in 1942. He held a number of posts at American institutes and universities, including fellowships at the Menninger School of Psychiatry and the San Francisco Psychoanalytic Institute, and was visiting scientist at the National Institute of Mental Health, Bethesda, Maryland. He also headed the psychiatric department at St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo. Doi has published a number of works and contributed to many more, including The Anatomy of Dependence.

About this edition

• Publisher: Kodansha America, Inc
• Publication date: 1989
• ISBN 10: 0870119028
• ISBN 13: 9780870119026
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 168