Takeo Doi, scholar on Japanese psyche, dies

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Source: Associated Press

TOKYO (AP) — Takeo Doi, a scholar who wrote that the Japanese psyche thrived on a love-hungry dependence on authority figures, has died, his family said Monday. He was 89.

Doi, who died Sunday from illnesses related to old age, wrote the 1971 book, "The Anatomy of Dependence," which introduced the idea of "amae" — a childlike desire for indulgence — as key to understanding the Japanese mind.

Doi's work was a hit in Japan but has been widely studied abroad in translation. Ezra Vogel, social sciences professor emeritus at Harvard University, has praised Doi's book as "the first book by a Japanese trained in psychiatry to have an impact on Western psychiatric thinking."

Doi argued that amae, while also observed by other nationalities, was more pronounced and elaborate among Japanese, and was key in defining social relationships everywhere, including at the office, at schools and in marriages.



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1. How interesting that is!!

Never heard of him but that work is thought provoking.