Recovering from codependence in Japan.
In this article, I explore the appropriation of the notion of “codependence” in Japan, as alcoholism increasingly becomes a subject of social concern. Codependence is pathologized in the 1980's American popular psychology, which regards accommodation to social relationships as a compromise of the se...
| Publicado en: | American Ethnologist Vol. 28; no. 1; pp. 94 - 119 |
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Wiley-Blackwell
February 2001
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