Takeo Doi

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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 created another book The Anatomy of Self, with the intention of expanding on his previous analysis of the concept Amae while intergrating two new concept, Tatemae and Honne.

Doi is a graduate of Tokyo University.