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Psychiatry

prolonged withdrawal into one's home, avoiding school, work, and social contact for months or longer, first described in Japan.

In psychiatry, hikikomori refers to prolonged withdrawal into one's home, avoiding school, work, and social contact for months or longer, first described in Japan. This meaning comes from Teo (2010) in Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease.[1]

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Teo, A. R., & Gaw, A. C. (2010). Hikikomori, a Japanese Culture-Bound Syndrome of Social Withdrawal? Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease, 198(6), 444-449. https://doi.org/10.1097/nmd.0b013e3181e086b1

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