2005 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary

Frontier Research on Psychotherapy and Culture in Clinical Psychology

Research Project

Project/Area Number	15530448
Research Category	Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
Allocation Type	Single-year Grants
Section	一般
Research Field	Clinical psychology
Research Institution	Kyoto University
Principal Investigator	KAITO Akira Kyoto University, Graduate School of Education, Associate Professor, 教育学研究科, 助教授 (70204310)
Co-Investigator(Kenkyū-buntansha)	OYAMA Yasuhiro Kyoto University, Center for the Promotion of Excellence in Higher Education, Associate Professor, 高等教育研究開発推進センター, 助教授 (00293936) HAMANO Kiyoshi Kyoto Bunkyo University, Department of Clinical Psychology, Professor, 人間学部, 教授 (10218547) SAKATA Hiroyuki Osaka Shoin Women's University, Department of Human Sciences, Lecturer, 人間科学部, 講師 (70340627) ISHIHARA Hiroshi Kyoto University, Graduate School of Education, Assistant Professor, 教育学研究科, 助手 (40378500)
Project Period (FY)	2003 – 2005
Keywords	Narrative / Psychotherapy / Fieldwork / Experience / Culture / Clinical Psychology / Okinawa / Izumo
Research Abstract	The purpose of this project is to make a new paradigm which is different from traditional scientific paradigm, in psychotherapy that is the praxis in clinical psychology. At first, we set the concept "relatedness" and examined a method. The method we adopt is fieldwork. The members participated this fieldwork were psychotherapist. That is the point worthy of notice, because, the method fieldwork do not exist in the research of clinical psychology. We psychotherapists left for the fields, Okinawa and Izumo. Okinawa has have a particular history and been a soil relating the culture of healing. Izumo has been a particular place in Japanese mythology. We have related to the local people, culture, and so on. In this process, we used The Landscape Montage Technique(LMT). The feature of this projective technique LMT is to reflect "relatedness" between client and clinical psychologist. Through the fieldwork, we had a lot of materials about experiences, narrative, drawings, and so on. Assuming these to be materials of client, we examined narrative from experiences. At last, we had a symposium and examined the results, and had a further theme in making a new paradigm in clinical psychology.