This volume brings together twenty-six of Professor Doi’s principal papers on the subject of the Japanese psyche and the subject of dependency (amae) published in English over the last fifty years, beginning with his paper on Japanese Psychiatry (1955) and concluding with ‘Are Psychological Concepts of Japanese Origin Relevent?’ (2002), some of which are published here for the first time, Pre-eminent among Japanese psychiatrists, Professor Doi gained international fame with the publication of The Anatomy of Dependence in 1973.