Seminar: "Hakikomori" (Social Withdrawal), Monday, October 26, (4-5pm)

Place: Winants Auditorium in Graves Hall

Synopsis: Prof. Yuichi Hattori, Sayama Psychological Institute in Japan is a social psychologist working with a very unique socio-psychological disorder in Japan. This disorder is called hikikomori (social withdrawal) and is very similar to agoraphobia in its symptoms, but very different in its causes. Prof. Hattori will be talking about various topics related to this disorder including, parent-child attachment, social triggers, and loneliness. Prof. Hattori was educated at UCLA where he received his master's degree in social psychology. Upon his return to Japan, the problem with hikikomori was becoming more recognized, and he saw such a need for good counseling that many of his contemporaries were unable or unwilling to do. He decided to step a little outside his field of expertise in order to address this need, and has been counseling these individuals for the past ten years with very successful outcomes.

His lecture should be very insightful for anyone related to the field of psychology or the helping professions in general, as well as anyone who wants to get a glimpse of the place where Eastern culture and Western psychology inter-connect.

Sponsored by the Psychology Department and the Department of Modern and Classical Languages.

Dr. Rebecca Spencer will be available to meet with majors who want to learn about applying to, getting in, and surviving graduate school. The meeting will be on Thursday, October 22, from 2:30 to 3:20 pm and will be strictly Q & A. Students should feel free to come and go as they are able. It will be held in the Student Resource Room Schaap Science Center 1109. Dr. Spencer is on the faculty at University of Massachusetts - Amherst.

Rebecca Spencer (Hope Class of 1997) will be presenting a colloquium entitled "Sleep and Memory: The Case Against Pulling an All-nighter." The talk will be Thursday October 22, 11:00 am in Schaap Science Center 1019.

Refreshments Served!

ATTENTION STUDENTS!

The next major declaration meeting for the psychology major will be:

Dear Psych Majors:

Welcome back. We hope the Fall term will be a great one for you. Please stop by our offices when you return to campus (to see our new carpet and drywall!).

--Scott VanderStoep
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