KEIO RESEARCHERS INFORMATION SYSTEM

Career 【 Display / hide 】

Career 【 Display / hide 】

• 2002.04

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  2005.03

  東海大学　文学部　心理社会学科

• 2004.04

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  Present

  慶應義塾大学　文学部　人間科学専攻　助手

• 2007.04

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  2008.03

  Assistant Professor

• 2008.04

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  Present

  Associate Professor, Dept. of Human Sciences, Faculty of Letters, Keio University

Academic Background 【 Display / hide 】

Academic Background 【 Display / hide 】

• 1993.03

  Sophia University, Faculty of Letters, Department of Psychology

  University, Graduated

• 1993.06

  The University of Chicago, Graduate School, Social Sciences, Cultural Anthropology & Cultural Psychology

  United States, Graduate School, Completed, Master's course

• 2006.05

  McGill University, Depts. of Anthropology & Social Studies of Medicine, Medical Anthropology

  Canada, Graduate School, Completed, Doctoral course

Academic Degrees 【 Display / hide 】

Academic Degrees 【 Display / hide 】

• Ph.D., McGill University, Coursework, 2006.05

• M.A., University of Chicago, Dissertation, 1993.06

Research Areas 【 Display / hide 】

Research Areas 【 Display / hide 】

• Medical Anthropology

Research Keywords 【 Display / hide 】

Research Keywords 【 Display / hide 】

• Anthropology

• Medicine

• History of Medicine

• Cultural Psychiatry

• Psychiatry

Research Themes 【 Display / hide 】

Research Themes 【 Display / hide 】

• Medical Anthropology of Depression and Suicide, 

  　

Books 【 Display / hide 】

Books 【 Display / hide 】

• De la Mort Volontaire au Suicide au Travail: Histoire et Anthropologie de la Dépression au Japon

  KITANAKA JUNKO, Les Éditions D'Ithaque, 2014.04

• Work, Stress, and Depression: The Emerging Psychiatric Science of Work in Contemporary Japan in "Stress, Shock, and Adaptation in the Twentieth Century" edited by David Cantor and Edmund Ramsden

  KITANAKA JUNKO, University of Rochester Press, 2014

  Scope: 222-237

• 早期介入のリスクとベネフィット――医療人類学的視点から　 『重症化させないための精神疾患の診方と対応』水野雅文編

  KITANAKA JUNKO, 医学書院, 2014

  Scope: 264-270

• うつの医療人類学

  KITANAKA JUNKO, 日本評論社, 2014

• 「わたし」と「病」の境界線――うつの医療人類学 『文学部は考える　４　「私」を考える』

  KITANAKA JUNKO, 慶應義塾大学出版会, 2013

  Scope: 128-146

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Papers 【 Display / hide 】

Papers 【 Display / hide 】

• Limits of empathy: The dementia tōjisha movement in Japan

  Kitanaka J.

  Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences （Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences)  57 （ 3 ） 266 - 272 2021.07

  ISSN  00225061

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  How can we imagine someone's experience of illness—even extreme cases, like, for example, psychosis—to the extent that we begin to empathize as if the experience were nearly our own? Based on 5 years of archival research and anthropological fieldwork, I investigate how different forms of understanding and empathy have emerged through the work of people living with dementia (dementia tōjishas), some of who have advocated for the cause in Japan. I show how those with dementia used to be regarded as incommensurable beings, who were sometimes romanticized as having a transcendental power, and how those who care for them have changed their perspectives as they began to see dementia tōjisha as possible versions of their future selves. I also describe the rise of the tōjisha movement and the ways in which it has raised questions about the limits of empathy and instead asserted rights as a basis of understanding. In doing so, dementia tōjisha may be questioning the very foundation of Japanese society, highly invested as it is in the virtue of empathy for maintaining social relations.

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• In the Mind of Dementia: Neurobiological Empathy, Incommensurability, and the Dementia Tojisha Movement in Japan

  Kitanaka J.

  Medical Anthropology Quarterly （Medical Anthropology Quarterly)  34 （ 1 ） 119 - 135 2020.03

  ISSN  07455194

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  Living in the world's leading superaging society, Japanese are confronted with a tsunami of dementia that has generated fear of becoming mentally incommensurable to oneself and to others. Based on three years of fieldwork in various clinical settings, including a memory clinic in Tokyo, I show how people with dementia (dementia tojishas) and doctors have employed three approaches to overcoming incommensurability: psychotherapeutic, neurobiological, and ecological. With a primary focus on the neurobiological, I show how tojishas and doctors try to cultivate what I call “neurobiological empathy,” asking people to imagine not just how to be together with those with dementia but also what it is to be (in the mind of someone) with dementia. Investigating both the effects and limits of the neurobiologization of dementia, I ask how the dementia tojisha movement can work toward diminishing the preexisting fear about dementia and supplementing incommensurability with understanding and empathy.

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• The Rebirth of Secrets and the New Care of the Self in Depressed Japan

  KITANAKA JUNKO

  Current Anthropology （University of Chicago Press)   2015.12

  Research paper (scientific journal), Accepted

• 認知症新時代の精神病理学――医療人類学的視点から

  KITANAKA JUNKO

  現代思想――精神病理の時代 43 （ 9 ） 166 - 173 2015

  Research paper (scientific journal), Single Work

• うつ病の論理と倫理――医療人類学的視点から

  KITANAKA JUNKO

  精神医学の基盤 1 （ 2 ） 46 - 56 2015

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Papers, etc., Registered in KOARA 【 Display / hide 】

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• Depression in Japan : psychiatric cures for a society in distress (韓国語版)

  Kitanaka, Junko

  福澤諭吉記念慶應義塾学事振興基金事業報告集 （福澤基金運営委員会)  2022

• The rebirth of secrets and the new care of the self in depressed Japan

  Kitanaka, Junko

  Studies in sociology, psychology and education : inquiries into humans and societies （慶應義塾大学大学院社会学研究科)   （ 92 ） (81) - 100 2021

  ISSN  0912456X

• Building healthy communities : a historical and anthropological exploration

  Kitanaka, Junko

  学事振興資金研究成果実績報告書 （慶應義塾大学)  2018

• Neogerontology in the age of early detection of dementia : toward a tojisha-oriented clinical perspective

  Kitanaka, Junko

  科学研究費補助金研究成果報告書 2018

• 『こころ』を知る、『こころ』を活かす(2012年1月7日 三田キャンパス東館6階G-Sec Lab)

  Kitanaka, Junko

  Newsletter （慶應義塾大学グローバルCOEプログラム論理と感性の先端的教育研究拠点)  18   2 - 2 2012.03

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Reviews, Commentaries, etc. 【 Display / hide 】

Reviews, Commentaries, etc. 【 Display / hide 】

• Prototypes in psychiatry and the structure of clinical empathy

  Kitanaka J.

  Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences (Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences)  73 ( 8 )  2019

  ISSN  13231316

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• "Life Beside Itself: Imagining Care in the Canadian Arctic" by Lisa Stevenson (University of California Press, 2014)

  KITANAKA JUNKO

  Medical Anthropology Quarterly  2015.05

  Book review, literature introduction, etc., Single Work

• "Downs: The History of a Disability" by David Wright(Oxford University Press, 2011)

  KITANAKA JUNKO

  Medical History 58 ( 3 ) 453 - 454 2014

  Book review, literature introduction, etc., Single Work

• 『造反有理――精神医療現代史へ』立岩真也 （青土社, 2014）

  KITANAKA JUNKO

  こころの科学 176   97 2014

  Book review, literature introduction, etc.

• Konna seishinkai ni aitakatta: Tamashii no tegami ryôhô [Marc De Hert & Felix Sperans] (An Ideal Psychiatrist: Letter Therapy for the Soul)

  Kitanaka, Junko

  Kokoro to Shakai (Psyche and Society) (日本精神衛生会)  37 ( 4 ) 94-95 2006

  Book review, literature introduction, etc., Single Work

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Presentations 【 Display / hide 】

Presentations 【 Display / hide 】

• Early Intervention: A New Sense of Therapeutic Time in Japan and Beyond

  KITANAKA JUNKO

  Session on Global Meets Local, Local Meets Global: Psychiatry in the Twentieth Century East Asia, organized by Junko Kitanaka (Chicago) , 

  2015.03

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  Asian Studies Association Annual Meeting

• Instilling a New Sense of Therapeutic Time: Early Intervention in Japan

  KITANAKA JUNKO

  Session on Exploring the Intersection of Psychiatry and Everyday Life in East Asia: History and Anthropological Perspective, organized by Junko Kitanaka (九州大学、福岡) , 

  2015.03

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  Oral presentation (general), World Congress of Asian Psychiatry

• 「自己の医療化と」その先にあるもの：先制医療時代のうつ病を考える

  KITANAKA JUNKO

  宮城精神医療懇話会 (仙台) , 

  2015.01

  , 

  Oral presentation (invited, special)

• 自殺をめぐる臨床現場の葛藤：医師の語りから

  KITANAKA JUNKO

  自治医科大学医学部精神医学教室集談会 (栃木) , 

  2015.01

  , 

  Oral presentation (invited, special)

• 精神医学のことばと秘密――医療人類学的視点から

  KITANAKA JUNKO

  慶應義塾大学通信教育 日吉公開講座, 

  2014.11

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  Public lecture, seminar, tutorial, course, or other speech

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Research Projects of Competitive Funds, etc. 【 Display / hide 】

Research Projects of Competitive Funds, etc. 【 Display / hide 】

• Dementia in Community Psychiatry and "Self-Participatory" Medicine: A Medical Anthropological Perspective

  2019.04

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  2022.03

  MEXT,JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Principal investigator

• 認知症早期発見時代のネオ・ジェロントロジー：当事者の視点を活かす臨床構築に向けて

  2016.07

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  2019.03

  MEXT,JSPS, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C), Principal investigator

• 「鬱」の医療化とジェンダー：医療人類学的視点から

  2007

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  2009

  Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research, Research grant, No Setting

• Modernization and Japanese Senses of the Body

  2002.04

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  2004.03

  International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Research Fellow, Joint research, No Setting

• Society in Distress: The Psychiatric Production of Depression in Contemporary Japan

  2001

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  2002

  The Wenner Gren Foundation, Dissertation Grant, Research grant, No Setting

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Awards 【 Display / hide 】

Awards 【 Display / hide 】

• Francis Hsu Prize

  2013, American Anthropological Association, Society of East Asian Anthropology, Depression in Japan: Psychiatric Cures for a Society in Distress

  Country： United States

• 多文化間精神医学会奨励賞

  KITANAKA JUNKO, 2009.03, 鬱と自殺の医療人類学

  Type of Award： Award from Japanese society, conference, symposium, etc.

• Medical Anthropology Student Association Dissertation Award

  KITANAKA JUNKO, 2007.11, Society for Medical Anthropology, American Anthropological Association, Society in Distress: the Psychiatric Production of Depression in Contemporary Japan

  Type of Award： International academic award (Japan or overseas)

• Dr. Margaret Lock Prize in Social Studies of Medicine

  KITANAKA JUNKO, 2006.06, Society in Distress: the Psychiatric Production of Depression in Contemporary Japan

  Type of Award： International academic award (Japan or overseas)

Courses Taught 【 Display / hide 】

Courses Taught 【 Display / hide 】

• SPECIAL STUDIES IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY 2

  2024

• SPECIAL STUDIES IN CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY 1

  2024

• MEDICAL PROFESSIONALISM 1, BEHAVIORAL SCIENCE 1

  2024

• INTENSIVE SEMINAR: HUMAN SCIENCES 4

  2024

• INTENSIVE SEMINAR: HUMAN SCIENCES 3

  2024

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Social Activities 【 Display / hide 】

Social Activities 【 Display / hide 】

• BioSocieties

  2014.01

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• 慶應義塾大学CARLS　哲学・文化人類学グループ公開シンポジウム　「医療人類学の最前線III：家族・医療・政策」

  2009.06

• 慶應義塾大学CARLS　哲学・文化人類学グループ公開シンポジウム　「医療人類学の最前線II：国家、感染、バイオポリティクス」

  2009.01

• 慶應義塾大学CARLS　哲学・文化人類学グループ公開シンポジウム　「医療人類学の最前線I：遺伝・神託・バイオテクノロジー」

  2009.01

• 京都大学・慶應義塾大学COE合同シンポジウム　「心・病・文化－医療をめぐる文化と倫理」

  2009.01

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Memberships in Academic Societies 【 Display / hide 】

Memberships in Academic Societies 【 Display / hide 】

• うつ病学会

  　

Committee Experiences 【 Display / hide 】

Committee Experiences 【 Display / hide 】

• 2014.01

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  Editorial Advisory Board Member, BioSocieties

• 2009.06

  企画・運営・司会, 慶應義塾大学CARLS　哲学・文化人類学グループ公開シンポジウム　「医療人類学の最前線III：家族・医療・政策」

• 2009.01

  企画・運営・司会, 慶應義塾大学CARLS　哲学・文化人類学グループ公開シンポジウム　「医療人類学の最前線II：国家、感染、バイオポリティクス」

• 2009.01

  企画・運営・通訳, 京都大学・慶應義塾大学COE合同シンポジウム　「心・病・文化－医療をめぐる文化と倫理」

• 2009.01

  企画・運営・司会, 慶應義塾大学CARLS　哲学・文化人類学グループ公開シンポジウム　「医療人類学の最前線I：遺伝・神託・バイオテクノロジー」

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