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Shut-ins, Parasite Singles, and Herbivore Men: An Exploration of their Causation (Logan T. Purvis, University of Redlands, 2017)

abstract: h ttps://inspire.redlands.edu/cas_honors/167/
pdf: h ttps://inspire.redlands.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1167&context=cas_honors

>I-A-i. Shut-ins (hikikomori)
>According to Saitō Tamaki, social withdrawal, often accompanied by other mental conditions, is a symptom of a hikikomori, rather than an illness in itself. Social withdrawal is linked to several other types of problematic adolescent behaviors: not attending school (futoko), propensity for violence (kateinai boryoku,家庭内暴力), deviant subculture obsessives who occasionally have violent inclinations (otaku, お宅), phobia of interpersonal relations (taijinkyofu,対人恐怖), and retreat neurosis (taikyaku shinkeisho,退却神経症)2. Sometimes all of these symptoms will appear in some shape and form within a hikikomori.