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PCP Information Centre
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The Personal
Construct Psychology Information Centre
is located in Hamburg (Germany). Its
aim is to promote
the spirit and values of Personal Construct Psychology
(PCP) by
providing information on PCP and supporting organisations devoted to PCP.
The Centre is a
non-profit service and does not receive any funding. It is
maintained by Professor Dr Jörn
Scheer, formerly at the University of Giessen, Dept. of Medical
Psychology.
The Centre maintains a number of Internet sites
that can best be accessed through the Personal Construct Gateway
at http://www.personal-construct.net which
also provides access to other Web sites devoted to PCP (PCP Weblinks).
Specifically, the PCP Centre Hamburg is host to:
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- The PCP Info
Portal provides an
information
hub for the international PCP community. There is
information on publications, conferences, regional and national PCP
networks,
and numerous links to internet resources, especially web sites devoted
to PCP.
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- The PCP News Blog provides
up-to-date information on forthcoming conferences, new books and other
events.
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- The Internet Encyclopaedia of PCP
is a collaborative effort of numerous colleagues, scholars and
practitioners alike,
and provides basic information on PCP and its applications. It is
edited by Jörn Scheer
(Hamburg, Germany) and Beverly
Walker (Wollongong, Australia).
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- The (free) e-journal
Personal
Construct
Theory & Practice is currently the only journal
devoted to PCP. It was established in 2004 and is edited by Jörn Scheer
(Hamburg, Germany) and Trevor
Butt (Huddersfield, UK).
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- The PCP
Toolkit
provides "how to" information to people interested in using PCP tools
(e. g. the repertory grid) in research and practice. It is being
maintained by Trevor Butt (Huddersfield,
UK) and Jörn Scheer
(Hamburg, Germany) .
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- The network Arts
and PCP
comprises people with expertise in PCP on the hand and a scholarly or
practical interest in the arts on the other hand. It is maintained
by Jörn Scheer
(Hamburg, Germany) and Viv
Burr (Huddersfield, UK).
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- The network Politics and PCP
is open for people who believe that PCP can contribute to a better
understanding of people and processes in politics. It is currently
mediated by Jörn Scheer
(Hamburg, Germany).
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- PCP in Europe
informs about organisations, events, and activities in this part of the
world.
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also hosts the Web sites of
and has
provided the Home Pages for several International, European, German,
and Australasian PCP conferences as well as the European Personal Construct
Association (EPCA) until that organisation set up a Web
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