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New
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Jörn W. Scheer, Kenneth W.
Sewell (Eds.) (2006)
Creative Construing
Personal Constructions in the Arts
Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag
216
p., € 24,90
April,
2006
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40% discount price for PCP group
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The
Psychology of Personal Constructs, as devised by the American
psychologist
George Kelly, stresses the importance of the meanings that individuals
attach
to persons and events in the world surrounding them. Originating in
clinical
psychology, it has increasingly attracted the interest of scholars and
practitioners working in education, in organisations, and in other
disciplines
working with people. As there are hardly more “personal” processes than
creative ones, it seems appropriate to look at the arts from a personal
construct psychology perspective. This book presents for the first time
analyses
of creative processes, but it features also personal accounts by
creative
people – who write, sing, dance, act, and make music.
It includes a reprint of Don Bannister's famous paper on novel writing
and reading and an analysis of George Kelly's poems by Fay Fransella.
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Contents
READING AND WRITING
- A
PCT view of novel writing and reading - Don Bannister
- People,
poetry and politics - the novels of Don Bannister - Max Farrar
- George
Kelly and literature - Fay Fransella
- What-if
versions of ourselves: Creative writers speak - Chris Stevens
- Two
roads converge: Poetry as Personal Construct Theory - Richard Bell
- Haiku
poetry: Escape from constriction - Sean Brophy
EXPERIENCING MUSIC
- Music
and the person - Eric Button
- Construing
sounds, constructing music and non-music - Devorah Kalekin-Fishman
- Living
with jazz: Construing cultural identity - Jörn W. Scheer
SINGING
- Becoming
a singer: PCT and voice - Vivien Burr
- Stand
at the back and pretend - the experience of learning to sing - Mary
Frances
DANCING
- Construing
through body: The dancing experience - Sabrina Cipolletta
- Music
and mirrors: Dance as a construction of self - Sara K. Bridges
ACTING
- Construing
characters and cast: Personal constructs on the stage and in the
dressing room - Kenneth W. Sewell
- Sociality
and the sitcom - Jonathan D. Raskin
COMING
TO TERMS
- Art
proustifies Kelly's PCP: Personal searchings and revisitings - C.
T. Patrick Diamond
APPENDICES
- A
short
introduction to Personal Construct Psychology - Jörn W. Scheer
- Constructive
criticism - Editors
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