Papers - Kitanaka, Junko

脳神経科学的共感(neurobiological empathy)の可能性に向けて : 認知症臨床の医療人類学

北中　淳子

精神療法 50 ( 2 ) 170 - 175 2024

Research paper (scientific journal), Single Work, Lead author

特別講演 生きづらさの根源を医療人類学で解明する

北中　淳子

心と社会 54 ( 2 ) 11 - 29 2023

Research paper (scientific journal), Single Work, Lead author

主観性のテクノロジーとしての精神医学 : 医療人類学的視点

北中　淳子

精神神経学雑誌 124 ( 9 ) 637 - 644 2022

Research paper (scientific journal), Single Work, Lead author

精神医学の危機と回復 : 医療人類学からみた中井久夫

北中　淳子

現代思想 50 ( 2（臨増） ) 191 - 198 2022

Research paper (scientific journal), Single Work, Lead author

温故知新 仕事のストレスとうつ病の歴史

北中　淳子

Depression Journal 10 ( 1 ) 26 - 27 2022

Lead author

温故知新 うつの精神療法

北中　淳子

Depression Journal 10 ( 2 ) 22 - 23 2022

Lead author

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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嫌悪の医療人類学

北中　淳子

こころの科学  ( 220 ) 16 - 21 2021

Research paper (scientific journal), Lead author

当事者視点の精神医学知 : 医療人類学的考察

狩野　佑人, 北中　淳子

臨床精神医学 50 ( 9 ) 963 - 968 2021

Research paper (scientific journal), Last author

患者から学ぶ 依存への怖れと憧れ

北中　淳子

精神療法 47 ( 2 ) 267 - 269 2021

Research paper (scientific journal), Lead author

絶望のデータ化：デジタル精神医学の時代

北中　淳子

現代思想 49 ( 2 ) 36 - 45 2021

Research paper (scientific journal), Lead author

共感の技としての精神医療：医療人類学的視点

北中　淳子

精神神経学雑誌 123 ( 9 ) 576 - 582 2021

Research paper (scientific journal), Single Work, Lead author

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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生き生きとしたデータ：戦後地域医療と健康

北中　淳子

現代思想 48 ( 12 ) 140 - 144 2020

Research paper (scientific journal), Lead author

自殺の医療人類学：生きづらさへの文化的視点

北中　淳子

精神医学 63 ( 7 ) 1063 - 1072 2020

Research paper (scientific journal), Lead author

認知症のイメージを耕す：共感の医療人類学

北中　淳子

最新精神医学 25 ( 3 ) 177 - 184 2020

Research paper (scientific journal), Lead author

グローバルメンタルヘルス時代の治療文化論

北中　淳子

精神医学史 24 ( 2 ) 109 - 110 2020

Research paper (scientific journal), Lead author

高齢者倫理 新健康主義：日本での認知症予防論争をめぐって

北中　淳子

現代思想 47 ( 12 ) 151 - 160 2019

Research paper (scientific journal), Lead author

医療人類学のナラティヴ研究：その功罪と認知症医療における可能性

北中　淳子

N：ナラティヴとケア  ( 10 ) 11 - 18 2019

Research paper (scientific journal), Lead author

『東洋的』精神療法の医療人類学：神田橋臨床のエスノグラフィー試論

北中　淳子

こころと文化 17 ( 2 ) 107 - 115 2018

Research paper (scientific journal), Lead author