2024 Volume 27 Issue 2 Pages 103-116
This paper is an experimental ethnography drawn by a cultural anthropologist participating in a support study group organized by the Education and Research Committee of the Japanese Society of Community Psychology, with an awareness of the context of cultural anthropology and clinical psychology in Japan. It has been a long time since ethnography in cultural anthropology has moved from the classical to the experimental. This support study group held six sessions over the course of a year, with about 10 participants each time. The theme of the discourse was initially “Organizing Assessment and Intervention in Community Psychology”, but it was difficult to approach this theme directly, and as we entered the second half of the year, it was as if we were taking part in the process of this support study group becoming a community in the way it approached community psychology, through the difficulties of the planners. In this paper, using anonymous typescripts of discourses exchanged by members of the Japanese Society of Community Psychology on their own activities, we used the KJ method to examine the question, “What does community mean for community psychology?”
