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Takeo Doi (土居 健郎, Doi Takeo, March 17, 1920 – July 5, 2009) was a Japanese academic, psychoanalyst and author.[1]
Takeo Doi | |
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土居 健郎 | |
Born | Tokyo, Japan | March 17, 1920
Died | July 5, 2009 89) | (aged
Occupation(s) | Academic, psychoanalyst, author |
Notable work | The Anatomy of Dependence |
Doi was born in Tokyo, Japan in 1920. He was a graduate of the University of Tokyo.
Doi was Professor Emeritus in the Department of Neuropsychiatry at the University of Tokyo and a medical adviser to St. Luke's International Hospital in Tokyo. He was also Director of the National Institute of Mental Health in Japan. He taught at the University of Tokyo (1971-1980) and at International Christian University (1980-1982). He wrote numerous books and articles both in Japanese and in English.
Doi was best known for his influential explanation of contemporary Japanese society in the work The Anatomy of Dependence, published in 1971, which focused extensively on amae—inner feelings and behaviors that show individual's innate desires to be understood and taken care of—as a psychoanalytical concept and theory. The Anatomy of Dependence was described by Harvard professor emeritus Ezra Vogel as "the first book by a Japanese trained in psychiatry to have an impact on Western psychiatric thinking."[2] His work has been categorized as nihonjinron.[3]
In 1986, Doi published a further book, The Anatomy of Self, that expanded on his previous analysis of the concept of amae by a deeper examination of the distinctions between honne and tatemae (inner feelings and public display); uchi (home) and soto (outside); and omote (front) and ura (rear) and suggests that these constructs are important for understanding the Japanese psyche as well as Japanese society.[4]
Doi died aged 89 in 2009.
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