Veranstaltungstipp
Samstag, 01. Mai 2021, 18:00 - 21:00
Interdisziplinäres Online-Symposium
Wien
Batthyanystiege/Hofburg, 1010 Wien
Symposium
The fear of others – Taijinkyōfu: Emergence, development and demise of a psychiatric diagnosis
Our ninth virtual u:japan lecture this fall by Sarah Terrail Lormel explores the theoretical, institutional and intellectual factors underlying the fortune of pathological shyness in Japanese psychiatry, from its first becoming the object of medical scrutiny in the 1930s until its slow demise from the 1990s.