Takeo Doi

Takeo Doi (土居健郎, born in 1920 in Tokyo, Japan) is an eminent Japanese psychoanalyst. Takeo Doi made his influential critique of contemporary Japanese society in the work The Anatomy of Dependence, which focused extensively on the cause and effects of the Japanese cultural behavior, amae.

In 1986 Takeo Doi published a further book The Anatomy of Self, that expands on his previous analysis of the concept of Amae by a deeper examination of the traditional distinction between Tatemae and Honne.

Doi is a graduate of Tokyo University.

For a lengthy critique of his work, which dismisses Doi's theory as merely another variety of nihonjinron see Dale, Peter N. 1986. The Myth of Japanese Uniqueness Oxford, London. Nissan Institute, Croom Helm.pp.116-175

Takeo Doi 土居健郎