Hikikomori, a Japanese Culture-Bound Syndrome of Social Withdrawal?
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Journal of Nervous & Mental Disease
سال: 2010
ISSN: 0022-3018
DOI: 10.1097/nmd.0b013e3181e086b1