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We invite your contributions to the Special Issue ofJapanese Psychological Research:

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Vol.63 No.3 (July / 2021)

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Masayoshi Morioka(Ritsumeikan Universit�)Haruo Nomura(Osaka Universit�)
The Japanese Psychological Association

Special Issue “Narrative Based Research and Practice in Psychology”
The purpose of this issue is to investigate the narrative mode of thought within the context ofpsychological research and practice. Narratives are a form of language that communicates themeanings of personal experiences. They consist of personal events selected and authoredthrough enplotment. Jerome Bruner introduced the concept of the narrative as a mode ofpsychology in contrast to the paradigmatic mode of scientific psychology. Since the early 1980s,
psychology research using life stories and biographical methods, psychosocial support, andpsychotherapy has spread to become universal and has deepened insights into culture-specificissues.
In the field of psychosocial support, the process of re-telling severe life events such asattachment loss, disease, disaster, and violence, can facilitate reconstruction of a person’s senseof self. This narrative practice can recover the sense of agency.
The act of story making, by reconnecting personal life events according to a personal plot,
encourages people to share their experiences with others. Narration involves microprocesses
socially constructed as both self-to-self and self-to-other dialogues. In other words, people
examine the social context during the narration process. Recently, numbers of studies
articulating the semiotic activity of the narration process using micro conversation analysis
have increased.
Narrative based research is not exclusive to themes from clinical fields such as narrative
medicine, psychosocial support, and psychotherapy. It also includes themes from life story
research in the field of human development, retrospectives of elderly people, and from studies
of identity formation, career development, and generativity. Furthermore, narrative based
research includes qualitative psychological research conducted in various life situations,
including layperson centered studies.
This special issue aims to publish a wide range of papers addressing any type of narrative
based research and practice in psychology. Systematic or descriptive review articles regarding
the direction or methodology of narrative-based psychology are also welcomed.

We welcome three types of papers

1. Original Articles 2. Brief Reports 3. Reviews

Submission and Deadline
Deadline for manuscript submission is June 30, 2020.
Papers should be submitted as usual via the Japanese Psychological Research website:
https://jpa.iap-jp.org/jpr/
The cover letter must clearly state that the paper is intended for the “Special Issue”.
Please refer to the Author Guidelines:
https://psych.or.jp/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/jpr_publication_manual.pdf
In line with the Journal’s policy, all submissions to this special issue will be subject to the usual
process of initial screening and peer review. Reviews will be completed by end-March, 2021,
and any revisions requested MUST be carried out by mid-April, 2021.

For more information about this Special Issue, please contact the Special Issue Editors
Masayoshi Morioka ＜mmt21306@pl.ritsumei.ac.jp＞
Haruo Nomura ＜haruon@fka.att.ne.jp＞
The Japanese Psychological Association Editorial Office ＜jpaednew@psych.or.jp＞