New Paths in Trajectory Equifinality Modelling
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This book explores how the Trajectory Equifinality Approach (TEA), which was introduced in Japan two decades ago by Tatsuya Sato, represents a central milestone for cultural psychology. It involves the use of both real (life events that happened) and imagination-based materials (life events that could have happened, but did not) in psychological data analysis. The potential of TEA is still to be found beyond our current understanding. While the origin of the TEA lies in Japan, where it has grown in popularity over time, today, an extraordinary community of researchers from multiple scientific fields recognises this approach and applies it to their research endeavours. Due to its uniqueness and wide range of application possibilities, this volume enhances the Trajectory Equifinality Approach for new pathways, perspectives and applications in the field. An essential aim of this contribution is to encourage individuals to connect themselves and their endeavours to TEA and thus possibly explore new viewpoints for their work.
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Marc Antoine Campill currently finalises his Ph.D. in Psychology at the "Università degli Studi di Salerno". His current field interests are influenced by the cultural psychological understandings of the "individuum", bonded to the inner identification process and meaning generation -- concerning constructs such as pleromatics, Imagination, and MyCu-cultivation. He is dedicated to generating new psychological perspectives by transdisciplinary, integrating the social construction of common knowledge and the scientific meaning of other Naturwissenschaften into the contemporary psychological field. Main focus in his current works are new ways to approach art as science and the reinterpretation of the phenomenology behind creativity.
Natalie Jancosek is a senior researcher at Fondazione Jaan Valsiner, University for the future. She holds the position of a school psychologist at the Austrian Department of Education and lecturer at Webster University Vienna and University of Sustainability. Her research pathway and current interest are within the field of cultural psychology exploring topics of life course development, identity, sport, art, and everyday psychological phenomena. Her practical work in teaching includes scientific writing, ethics in psychology, and healthcare psychology in her private clinical and healthcare psychology practice, she is devoted to diagnostics, treatment, and consultation to clients and patients of all ages and cultural backgrounds, operating mainly in an international setting. Her scientific contributions are to be found in several volumes and journals. Her most recent editorial work includes The Handbook of Cultural Sports Psychology (2024).
Teppei Tsuchimoto is a lecturer at Chukyo University in Nagoya, Japan. His research interests lie in exploring aesthetic moments within the trajectory of human life. His work particularly focuses on the career development of elementary school students on Ioujima Island (Kagoshima, Japan), the interplay between personal and collective culture in gardening, and the transitions experienced by teachers seconded to Japanese curriculum schools abroad. In addition, he is engaged in bridging autoethnography with developmental-cultural psychology, with an emphasis on the process of deliberation. Tsuchimoto has also served as a supervising translator for the Japanese edition of An Invitation to Cultural Psychology by Jaan Valsiner. His editorial works include The Semiotic Field of the Garden: Personal Culture and Collective Culture (2024).
Content
Chapter 1. Introduction - It's TEA-Time: Expressing Incomparable Unity Through Individuality.- Chapter 2. Linking the Semiosphere and the Concept of Umwelt in Trajectory Equifinality Approach .- Chapter 3. A case study of a Cosplayer: Considering cosplaying as a transformative artistic life facet.- Chapter 4. Exploring the possibilities of connecting TEM with online fieldwork: A case study to understand collective culture on the covering work for the employees taking childcare leave or working shorter hours .- Chapter 5. Trajectories of Psychological Counselling - The Trajectory Equifinality Model in use with Clinical Psychological Patients.- Chapter 6. Artificial Intelligence (AI) and my future selves: Imagined journeys.- Chapter 7. Constructing Research Through Contingency: A Reflexive Exploration of Researcher-Participant "Meeting" using TEM.- Chapter 8. From Vygotsky to TEA: A Semiotic Exploration of Human Action and Purpose.- Chapter 9. Layering future perspectives in time of rupture: Meaning-making by a mother whose daughter struggles with multiple disorders .- Chapter 10. Guiding Your Desired Self Through Creative Thinking and Self-regulation: Applying the Future Auto-TEM to Career Design.- Chapter 11. Living with TEA at the Boundary of Self and World: Exploring Its Philosophy Through Dialogical Self Theory.- Chapter 12. TEM in figure skating and professional sport: Exploring possibilities and dynamics within professional figure skating practice and performance.- Chapter 13. Nursing Teacher's Ability Formation Process using Trajectory Equifinality Approach: Narratives of a Nursing Teacher Who Has Been Reborn Through Various Encounters in the Face of Crisis.- Chapter 14. Hidden Verticality in the Trajectory Equifinality Model?Theoretical Analysis in Relation to the Organization of School Services for Disabled and Handicapped Children.- Chapter 15. Music and Me: Borders, Equifinalities, and Bifurcations in the Life Trajectories of Young Musicians.- Chapter 16. MIRROR PATHWAYS: LIFE TRAJECTORIES IN RESEARCH AND FICTION.- Chapter 17. The Multidimensional Trajectory Equifinality Model in the Context of Sleep, Dreams and Emotional Well-being .- Chapter 18. Potential of Comics to Reflect Future and Trajectory Equifinality Approach in Psychology: Initial Ideas.- Chapter 19. To sing or not to sing?.- Chapter 20. hana-TEM, Exploring Life Trajectories Beyond Verbalization:Expansion of Trajectory Equifinality Modeling and Development of a New Method Using Natural Objects.- Chapter 21. The Vision of TEAConcluding Thoughts.