Associate Professor at Kyoto University, Dr. Tajan PRACTICES PSYCHOANALYSIS IN KYOTO
He attended Bordeaux University (France), Toulouse University (France), and Kyoto University Institute for Research in Humanities. He lives with his family in Kyoto.
French psychologist and psychoanalyst, Nicolas Tajan received the first Geneviève Haag award (psychoanalyst category, individual clinical work, 2022) from the International coordination between psychoanalyst psychotherapists and associate members caring for autistic people (CIPPA).
He is the former Vice-President and President of the International Mental Health Professionals Japan (2019-2023).
Nicolas Tajan is the author of Mental Health and Social Withdrawal in Japan: Beyond the Hikikomori Spectrum (Routledge 2021 – READ FULL TEXT) and Génération hikikomori (2017, in French).
His articles have appeared in peer reviewed journals such as Frontiers in Psychiatry, Journal of the Centre for Freudian Analysis and
Research, Research in Psychoanalysis, Asian Journal of Psychiatry, The Asia-Pacific Journal of Counselling and Psychotherapy, and Subjectivity.