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Jörn W. Scheer (Ed.) (2003)
Crossing
Borders – Going Places
Personal Constructions of Otherness
Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag
192
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The
Psychology of Personal Constructs,
developed by George A. Kelly (1905-1967), stressed the importance of
the
meanings that individuals attach to persons and events in the world
surrounding
them. Consequently it has been branded as an ‘individualistic’ theory
neglecting
the social nature of the Human Condition. However, in a Personal
Construct
Psychology view, the notion of The Other includes members of a wider
community,
of cultural groups, and even members of other nations. In this book,
scholars
from several countries write about issues of cross-cultural relevance,
such
as international travel, the importance of language, the unification
and
dissolution of states, migration to a new country, and what all this
means
for the definition, maintenance and development of the individual’s
identity.
Some of the papers have been published before but are out of print or
difficult to access. Included is Kelly’s
famous paper on ‘Europe’s
Matrix of Decision’ that has not been available for a number of
years.
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Contents
CROSSING BORDERS
- Europe’s
matrix of decision - George A. Kelly
- Snakes
in Ireland (Europe's matrix of decision revisited) - Peter Cummins
- Britain
after the Chunnel - Peter Cummins
- After
the Wall – construct systems in United Germany - Jörn W. Scheer
GOING PLACES
- Travelling:
“We don´t call it travelling; we call it living” - Beverly M.
Walker
- Identity
and travelling - Beverly M. Walker
- Construing
Berlin - Jörn W. Scheer
SPEAKING IN TONGUES
- ‘Congress
language’, personal constructs, and constructive internationalism - Jörn
W. Scheer
- How
are
meanings negotiated? Commonality, sociality, and the travel of ideas - Devi
Jankowicz, Dorota Dobosz-Bourne
ON OTHERNESS
- Where
are you from? The importance of the located self - Peter Cummins
- A
psychology of immigrants interacting with members of established
culture groups - James C. Mancuso
- After
forty years of peace – war in the heart of Europe - Dušan Stojnov
- Persons
in context: personal-human values and foreign cultures - Bill Warren
Appendix
- A
short
introduction to Personal Construct Psychology - Jörn W. Scheer
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