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According to Osamu Kitayama (preface), psychoanalysis in Japan is represented by two organizations: the IPA-affiliated, medical Japan Psychoanalytical Society, with 35 members and 21 candidates, of which Kitayama is a training and supervising analyst and the current secretary; and the Japan Psychoanalytical Association, a much larger, non-IPA-affiliated body, that has 2600 members—900 physicians and 1600 psychologists—of which he is a past president.
Kitayama has authored more than 100 articles, including publications in the International Review of Psychoanalysis and the International Journal of Psycho-Analysis in English, and some 15 books on psychoanalysis and applied psychoanalysis. All seven chapters of the present work have previously been published in the IRP (three), the IRP (one), and the Japan Journal of Psycho-Analysis. The book includes a brief biography of Kitayama and explanatory notes written by Jhuma Basak, a member of the Indian Psychoanalytical Society.
The English title of the book, Prohibition of Don't Look, is ambiguous: it could be construed to mean either that what is prohibited is not looking,