支援活動からみたひきこもり

ある民間支援団体の事例を手がかりにして

抄録

There are many support groups for people suffering from hikikomori (social withdrawal). How to aid their rehabilitation is a complicated subject. What do the supporters do actually? One role for private support groups is to visit people in hikikomori and act as “the disturbing other, ” to shake up their daily life which is divorced from any significant happening and to introduce an element of uncertainty. In so doing, the supporter has to manage her emotions to enjoy the uncertainty, and to make herself happy to meet people in hikikomori. Through this management of emotion, the supporter manages to show people in hikikomori that the uncertainty is necessary and fun and therefore they are welcomed by society.