About

Psychologist and psychoanalyst, Nicolas Tajan is the author of Génération hikikomori (2017, in French) and Mental Health and Social Withdrawal in Japan: Beyond the Hikikomori Spectrum (Routledge forthcoming 2021). His articles have appeared in the Asian Journal of Psychiatry, Neuropsychiatrie de l’enfance et de l’adolescence, L’Information psychiatrique, The Asia Pacific Journal: Japan Focus, The Asia-Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy, Cipango, and Subjectivity (Top viewed paper of 2015, Palgrave).

Program-Specific Associate Professor at Kyoto University, Dr. Tajan is also the Vice-president of the International Mental Health Professionals Japan. He attended Bordeaux University, Toulouse University, and Kyoto University Institute for Research in Humanities. He lives with his family in Kyoto.