Jörn W. Scheer (Ed.)

THE PERSON IN SOCIETY - Challenges to a Constructivist Theory

Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag, 2000

ISBN 3-89806-015-2, 455 pages

This book contains the most important contributions to the 13th International Congress on Personal Construct Psychology, held in Berlin (Germany) in 1999.
Price: Originally DM 89 (EUR/$US 45), for PCP Network members DM 40 (EUR/$US 20 or £ 13) when ordered directly from Jörn Scheer.

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Contents

Contributors 
Preface 

PROLOGUE: CONSTRUCTIVE TRAVELLING

  • Travelling: ‘We don´t call it travelling; we call it living’

    • Beverly Walker
  • Snakes in Ireland (Europe's Matrix of Decision revisited)

    • Peter Cummins
  • Construing Berlin

    • Jörn W. Scheer

A CONSTRUCTIVIST THEORY

  • Allying constructivist perspectives to further the evolution of consciousness

    • Jerald R. Forster
  • Personal Construct Theory and the constructivist family: a friendship to cultivate, a marriage not to celebrate

    • Gabriele Chiari 
  • Personal Construct Psychology, Neo-Structuralism and Hermeneutics 

    • Bill Warren 
  • Hermeneutics and constructivist psychotherapy: the psychotherapeutic process in a hermeneutic constructivist framework

    • Gabriele Chiari, Maria Laura Nuzzo
  • Going beyond the scientist metaphor: from validation to experience cycles

    • Beverly M. Walker, Lindsay G. Oades, Peter Caputi, Christopher D. Stevens, Nadia Crittenden
  • George Kelly and mathematics

    • Fay Fransella

GRIDS AND STATS – AND MORE

  • Why do statistics with Repertory Grids?

    • Richard Bell 
  • Do we need grids and stats? – a contrary view

    • Tom Ravenette 
  • A psychometric assessment of the bipolarity of constructs in Repertory Grid data

    • Richard Bell
  • Laddering: theoretical and methodological contingencies – some order and a little chaos

    • Jacqui Costigan, Bernie Closs, Paula Eustace
  • Experience cycle methodology: A new method for Personal Construct Psychologists?

    • Lindsay G. Oades, Linda L. Viney

THE PERSON IN SOCIETY

  • The person in society: Construct Psychology and social action

    • Trevor Butt 
  • Construing culture: ‘Plain talk’

    • Devorah Kalekin-Fishman 
  • Re-locating the use of Personal Construct Theory in the fields of business, management and the study of organisations

    • Nelarine Cornelius
  • Professional identity: making sense of Repertory Grids

    • Julie Ellis-Scheer
  • Teachers' professional identity: a study of cases from science education

    • Mike Watts, Gill Nicholls
  • PhD projects as struggles in sociality

    • Phil Salmon
  • Users’ quality perceptions in classroom design: a case study

    • Helena Maria Galha

BODY AND  SOUL

  • Looking through mirrors: self-reflections in our evaluations of others

    • Jack Adams-Webber 
  • Core constructs and Ordinary Mind Zen

    • Spencer A. McWilliams 
  • The multiple meanings of loss: grieving as a process of personal reconstruction

    • Robert A. Neimeyer 
  • Spirituality and self: a case for drugs education

    • Jane Mallick, Mike Watts 
  • Emotions and personal constructs

    • Holger Kirsch, Jochen Jordan 
  • Subjective experience of catatonia: construct-analytical findings by means of modified Landfield categories

    • Heinz Böker, Cordula von Schmeling, Cynthia Lenz, Andrea Eppel, Matthias Meier, Georg Northoff 
  • The Body and Self Experience Grid in Clinical Concentrative Movement Therapy (KBT)

    • Karin Schreiber-Willnow 
  • Body construct systems of patients with haematological malignancies

    • Cora Weber, Ekkehard Bronner, Pia Thier, Dorothea Kingreen,  Burghard F. Klapp 
  • Assessment of conflicts in smokers willing to quit

    • Rolf Deubner 
  • Deliberate and undeliberated self harm: Theoretical basis and evaluation of a Personal Construct Psychotherapy intervention

    • David Winter, Suchitra Bhandari, Christopher Metcalfe, Tony Riley, Lester Sireling, Sue Watson, Gemma Lutwyche 

PSYCHOTHERAPY: CHANGE AND TRANSITIONS

  • Personal Construct Psychology, constructivism, and psychotherapy research

    • Luis Botella 
  • Can Personal Construct Therapy succeed in competition with other therapies?

    • David Winter 
  • The poetry of our lives: symbolism in Experiential Personal Construct Psychotherapy

    • April J. Faidley, Larry M. Leitner 
  • Detection and analysis of implicative dilemmas: implications for the  therapeutic process

    • Guillem Feixas, Luis Angel Saúl, Vicente Sánchez 
  • Time and transitions: the experience of time in the psychotherapeutic relationship

    • Gabriele Chiari, Maria Laura Nuzzo 
  • The construction of  “emotions”, or the therapist's transitions: a relationship between personal and professional constructs

    • Massimo Giliberto, Mara Ognibeni 
  • Therapist's transitions and the risk of suicide

    • Pasquale Brogna, Tiziana D'Andrea 
  • Creating the Future?

    • John M. Fisher

EPILOGUE: PCP AFTER Y2K

  • Personal Construct Psychology by the year 2045

    • Fay Fransella 

APPENDIX

  • A short introduction to Personal Construct Psychology

    • Jörn W. Scheer 

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