Eine transkulturelle Studie zum Blickerleben

TRANSCULTURAL STUDY OF THE EYE PERCEPTION - COMPARISON BETWEEN SOCIOPHOBIA AND TAI-JIN-KYôFU: Recently Western psychiatry has been paying more attention to the sense of shame, as is evident from the introduction of the concept of sociophobia which may be regarded as a typical example of “shame-disease”, to DSM and ICD. Sociophobia is without doubt similar to Tai-jin-kyôfu( = TK), which was often considered as a specifically Japanese culture syndrome. To explore the relation between sociophobia and TK syndrome, the eye perception of the sociophobic patient is compared with that of the TK Patient. The former, to w…