Tamaki Saitō

Tamaki Saitō is a Japanese psychologist and critic. He specializes in the psychiatry of puberty and adolescence.
Saitō is Director of Medical Service at Sofukai Sasaki Hospital in Funabashi, Chiba.
Saitō is notable for his study of hikikomori, a term he coined; he is internationally recognized as Japan's leading hikikomori expert. He is also known for presenting the theory of "multiple orientations" to explain otaku sexuality in Beautiful Fighting Girl. Since the 2010s, he has been involved in introducing Open Dialogue in Japan.

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Personal history

Saito was born in Kitakami, Iwate. In 1980, he graduated from Morioka First High School and matriculated into the University of Tsukuba the same year; graduating in 1986 from the medical faculty with a specialization in Environmental Ecology. In 1990, he completed a doctoral course in medicine under the leadership of Hiroshi Inamura.

Publications

Bunmyakubyō--Lacan/Bateson/Maturana, Context disease--Lacan/Bateson/Maturana 1998Shakaiteki hikikomori--Owaranai Shishunki, Social withdrawal--Adolescence without End 1998Sento bishojo no seishinbunseki, Psychoanalysis of Beautiful Fighting Girl 2000Gekiron! hikikomori, Argument! hikikomori 2001 'Hikikomori' kyushutu manual, 'Hikikomori' rescue manual 2002OK? Hikikomori OK!, OK? Hikikomori OK! 2003Hikikomori bunkaron, On Hikikomori culture 2003Kairi no pop skill, Pop skill of Dissociation 2004Bungaku no choukou, Symptom of the literature 2004Ikinobiru tame no Lacan, Lacan for survival 2006Media ha sonzai shinai, Media does not exist 2007Artist wa kyokaisenjou de odoru, Artists dance on the borderline 2007Bungaku no dansou--Sekai/Shinsai/Character ''Dislocation of the literature--Sekai/Disaster/Character 2008Kankei no kagaku toshite no bungaku, Literature as chemistry of relationships 2009Bungaku no seishinbunseki, Psychoanalysis of 'Literature' 2009Hikikomori kara mita mirai--SIGN OF THE TIMES 2005−2010 The future seen from hikikomori--SIGN OF THE TIMES 2005−2010 2010Character seishinbunseki Character psychoanalysis 2011
Translation in English

Saitō, Tamaki "Otaku Sexuality" in Christopher Bolton, Istvan Csicsery-Ronay Jr., and Takayuki Tatsumi ed., Robot Ghosts and Wired Dreams. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.
Saitō, Tamaki "The Asymmetry of Masculine/ Feminine Otaku Sexuality: Moe, Yaoi and Phallic Girls" in Ayelet Zohar, ed., Postgender: Gender, Sexuality and Performativity in Japanese Culture. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing..
Saitō, Tamaki Beautiful Fighting Girl. Trans. J. Keith Vincent and Dawn Lawson. Minneapolis: University Of Minnesota Press.
Saitō, Tamaki Social Withdrawal: Adolescence without End.'' Trans. Jeffrey Angles. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press.