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Journal Of Constructivist Psychology (2019), Vol. 32, No. 4

10/29/2019

Articles
Article
Systematic Integration of Quantitative Measures into the Qualitative Content Analysis of Constructs
Nikolas Höft, Mark Heckmann & Devi Jankowicz
Pages: 345-369
Published online: 25 Oct 2018
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Article
Perceptions of Socially Disadvantaged Children: A Personal Construct Approach
Tazvin Ijaz, Farah Malik & Shirmeen Ijaz
Pages: 370-389
Published online: 04 Dec 2018
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Article
Emptiness, Engulfment, and Life Struggle: An Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis of Chronic Depression
John E. Rhodes, Steve J. Hackney & Jonathan A. Smith
Pages: 390-407
Published online: 05 Dec 2018
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Article
Personal Constructs of Mind-Body Identity in People Who Experience Medically Unexplained Symptoms
Tom Sanders, David Winter & Helen Payne
Pages: 408-423
Published online: 28 Dec 2018
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Article
Discordances in Ascriptions of Agency and Reflectivity in the First Psychotherapy Session
Heidi Toivonen, Jarl Wahlström & Katja Kurri
Pages: 424-443
Published online: 28 Dec 2018
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Article
Voices Inside Me: The Relationship Between Neuroticism and the Tendency to Engage in Internal Dialogue in the Context of Time Perspective
Malgorzata Sobol-Kwapinska, Piotr Oleś & Joanna Stokłosa
Pages: 444-460
Published online: 28 Dec 2018
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Book review
Deconstruction: A Process of Building Better Therapists
Reviewed by Kimberly Champion & Jill C. Thomas
Pages: 461-465
Published online: 23 Dec 2018
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Journal Of Constructivist Psychology (2019), Vol. 32, No. 3

7/23/2019

Articles
Article
Dialogical Self and the Changing Body During the Transition to Motherhood
Kristiina Uriko
Pages: 221-235
Published online: 29 May 2018
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Article
The Normal, Improving, and Productive Self: Unpacking Neoliberal Governmentality in Therapeutic Interactions
Andrea LaMarre, Olga Smoliak, Carmen Cool, Hilary Kinavey & Laura Hardt
Pages: 236-253
Published online: 19 Sep 2018
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Article
Implicit Theories of Creativity in Higher Education: A Constructivist Study
Jelena Pavlović & Slavica Maksić
Pages: 254-273
Published online: 31 Jan 2019
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Original Articles
Article
“I’m Just Who I Am”: Self-Continuity and the Dialogical Self in a Study of Migrants
Kenna Bourke, Guida de Abreu & Clare J. Rathbone
Pages: 274-291
Published online: 06 Sep 2018
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Articles
Article
Unraveling the Wonder of the Ordinary: A Narrative Analysis of Meaning Construction in Memories of Familiar Routines
Jacky van de Goor, Anneke M. Sools & Gerben J. Westerhof
Pages: 292-308
Published online: 29 Dec 2018
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Article
On the Measurement of Implicative Dilemmas
Víctor Rouco, Clara Paz, David Winter & Guillem Feixas
Pages: 309-324
Published online: 03 Oct 2018
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Article
Recycling Identities: A Narrative Inquiry on Consumer Decision Making Among Urban Poor Families in the Philippines
Earl Justin Y. Tiu, Faustene S. Tamayo, John Paolo L. So & Nico A. Canoy
Pages: 325-344
Published online: 06 Sep 2018
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Journal Of Constructivist Psychology (2019), Vol. 32, No. 2

4/25/2019

Jay Efran Honored With Bust At National Museum Of Psychology

4/1/2019

Note Efran’s uncanny resemblance to Ulysses S. Grant.

Jay S. Efran

Jay Efran, who studied under George Kelly and Julian Rotter at The Ohio State University and went on to develop context-centered psychotherapy, has been honored with a marble bust at the National Museum of Psychology in Akron, Ohio.

“Over a 50+ year career, Dr. Efran has been a thorn in the side of professional psychology,” said the museum’s executive director, David R. Baker, in a statement released to the press. “We wanted to publicly honor him for utilizing radical constructivism and its seminal notion of structure determinism to so brilliantly perturb the status quo–albeit under the demonstrably false assumption that doing so might force the discipline of psychology to reorganize itself in more generative configurations. Ha! Put that in your structure and determine it!”

When contacted at his home in Philadelphia and told of the honor, Jay was flattered but not especially enthusiastic. “I had heard they were planning to do this and I wasn’t particularly excited about it. Awards aren’t personal, you know. They’re really more a reflection on those giving them than those receiving them.”

Asked why, given his lack of enthusiasm about the award, he didn’t turn it down, Efran cocked his head slightly and replied briskly, “I decided to go along with it because–as every context-centered psychotherapist knows–what we resist persists!”

Colleagues in the field had a variety of reactions when told of Efran’s bust being installed in the museum.

“What an extraordinary accomplishment,” gushed Efran co-author Mitchell Greene. When shown a photo of the bust and asked to comment, Greene’s expression shifted dramatically and there was a lengthy pause before he replied “Well um, how interesting. Not exactly up to Roman standards, but it’s the thought that counts.”

Not everyone was as circumspect about the quality of the bust.

“Ha! I think it’s wonderful!” cheered renowned personal construct psychologist Franz Epting, who went to graduate school with Efran back in the 1960s. “I never realized before how much Jay looks like Ulysses S. Grant! The resemblance is uncanny!”

Though most people in the constructivist community responded positively, a few were critical of the bust being installed in the museum.

“Talk about reification of constructs!” huffed Bill Warren when reached at his retirement villa in Australia. “George Kelly said that people are forever in process. However, statues are inevitably static creations, therefore I’m against them. Now get out of my way because I’m off to the pub to watch me some rugby.”

Prominent critic of constructivism, Barbara Held, used the opportunity to score points.
“How ironic that an antirealist like Efran is being honored with something about as epistemologically real as it gets: a garish bust of his noggin!” snapped Held when asked to comment during a visit to the museum where she was among the first to view the bust. “Does Efran even accept the statue as ontologically real? If not, he and his fellow antirealists need to get back to reality!”

After commenting, Held took out a black Sharpie and attempted to draw a phrenology map on the side of the bust, but was prevented from doing so by museum security.
Asked to place having a bust of his head displayed in a museum into context, Efran responded “I usually love being asked about context, but I can honestly say that when it comes to this God-forsaken artistic monstrosity that is supposed to represent my head, suddenly discussing context annoys the hell out of me.” Trying to salvage his answer, Efran added “Having a hideous bust of your head put in a museum doesn’t matter, but it also doesn’t matter that it doesn’t matter. So there’s that.”

The official unveiling of “Efran in Repose” at the National Museum of Psychology is scheduled for October 10.

Journal Of Constructivist Psychology, 2019: Vol. 32, No. 1

3/29/2019

Dialogical Self Society to Formalize Its Organizational Structure

3/19/2019

News from the International Society for Dialogical Science:

Dear Colleagues,
After many years of successfully running on an informal basis, theInternational Society for Dialogical Science(ISDS) is about to formalize its structure. This will ensure the continuation of the society and the smooth organization of its meetings.
At the next conference in Barcelona we will hold elections for members of an executive and will ask members to vote on the structure of the society. Hence we are asking that all current members renew their membership and to invite others to do the same by visiting www.dialogicalself.org(alternatively you can can use https://dialogicalself.wildapricot.org).
You will be receiving further information about the 11th International Conference of the Dialogical Self soon. This meeting is scheduled for June 10-13, 2020 as noted in Barcelona.
We kindly invite you to become a member of the ISDS and to distribute this news in your network.
With our best regards,
Henderikus Stam, incoming president
Hubert Hermans, honorary president
Miguel Gonçalves, vice president
João Tiago Oliveira, administrator

International Society for Dialogical Science
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Becomeamember of the International Society for Dialogical Science
MISSION:
- The stimulation of interaction between researchers and practitioners who are interested in the facilitation of dialogical processes in society and between cultures in a globalizing world;
- The construction and further development of Dialogical Self Theory and other theories thatdeal directly with the relationship between self and dialogue
- The development of scientific methods for assessment and promotion of dialogical processes in connection with the development of the self.
To learn more about the benefits of membership visit: www.dialogicalself.org

Alvin Landfield, 1924-2019

1/23/2019

Al Landfield

Alvin “Al” Warner Landfield, Ph.D., 94 of Lincoln, Nebraska, passed away on Friday, January 11, 2019. He was born September 10, 1924 in Newark, New York to Warner C. Landfield and Edith J. Landfield (Crane). He graduated from Newark High School, followed by one semester at Muskingum College, Ohio.

He was a veteran of the greatest generation and served in WWII. He was drafted into the Army and was sent to Alabama for four months of training. After Infantry training, he was transferred to the Army Specialized Training Program (ASTP). Al enrolled in Basic Engineering at Auburn University, then called Alabama Polytechnic Institute. The ASTP program was shut down after two semesters and students were sent as Infantry replacements to France. He was assigned to Patton’s Third Army, 26th Division, Company G, 328th Infantry Regiment, where he served until hospitalized with trench foot. After three months he was sent to a Rehab Hospital in North Carolina.

Following his honorable discharge in 1945, Al enrolled at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, then entered the Graduate School at The Ohio State University. He completed an MA and then received his Ph.D. in Psychology in 1951.
Dr. Landfield served on three university faculties, initially at Purdue University as an Assistant Professor, then the University of Missouri as an Associate and Full Professor. In 1967, he was a Visiting Scientist at the University of London. He transferred to the University of Nebraska in Lincoln as a Full Professor in 1972.

He is the author and editor of five Graduate level books in the Psychology of Personal Constructs. One of the books was also translated into Spanish. For twenty years he was responsible for an International Clearing House of research in his field of study. He was responsible for the First International Congress on Personal Construct Theory, held in Lincoln at UNL. International Conferences have been held every other year since 1975 in more than seven countries. In 1996, he received a Lifetime Career Award at the conference in Banff Canada. He retired from the University of Nebraska.

He was preceded in death by his parents, his sister, Elizabeth, and wife Susan Jean (Pugh). Al is survived by his wife Ann (Case), daughter Megan Landfield, son Kent Landfield, daughter-in-law Teresa Landfield, grandchildren Faye Slosar (Landfield), Neal Landfield and Jonathan Landfield, and eight great-grandchildren, step-son Duncan Case, step-daughter Leslie Case and step-son Colyn Case. In lieu of flowers make memorials to: Salvation Army, Red Cross, Peoples city Mission, or the Friendship Home.

Obituary from https://www.dignitymemorial.com/obituaries/lincoln-ne/alvin-landfield-8122654.

Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 2018: Volume 31, Number 4

9/3/2018

Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 2018: First Three Issues

6/11/2018

Neimeyer Signs Deal with Netflix

4/1/2018

Constructivist psychologist and world-renowned grief and loss scholar Robert Neimeyerhas signed a 7-year deal with Netflix, according to unnamed sources. Under the deal, which will pay Neimeyer an estimated $12.5 million annually, Netflix and Neimeyer will work together to produce a streaming documentary series, tentatively titled “Love and Loss with Bob Neimeyer.”

“I’m thrilled,” said Neimeyer at the press conference in Burbank where the deal was announced. “I’ve been traversing the globe presenting on grief and loss for years now, so to land a Netflix deal and be able to share my global sojourns on television is beyond exciting.”

Reaction to the Neimeyer signing from within the constructivist community was swift and intense. Some were encouraging, but most expressed some combination of skepticism and envy.

“What a lovely and well-deserved accomplishment,” said Franz Epting, senior personal construct psychologist and former mentor to Neimeyer during his undergraduate days at the University of Florida. “I will definitely tune in. Um, what channel is Netflix on in Gainesville?”

But not everyone was as enthusiastic in response to the news.

“Sell out,” muttered a seemingly jealous Larry Leitner, whose daytime talk show, “Hello Larry,” was such a bust for ABC television several years ago that he quit psychology permanently and retired to a farm in Iowa. “Why get a gig on TV when you can run a family farm instead?”

There was a similarly chilly reaction from Bob’s younger brother, Greg, also a psychologist.

“How come he gets a TV show instead of me?” exclaimed Greg, associate executive director for continuing educationand professional development at the American Psychological Association, as he made his way to the White House to lobby President Trump for increased federal funding of mental health care. “As a political big wig in my own right, my entourage is still going to be bigger than Bob’s. Plus, I have more Twitter followers than he does.”

When asked about the mixed reaction to his television deal from the constructivist community, Bob was philosophical.

“It’s hard when people move on to bigger and better things. First there was my new Institutein Portland. Now a show on Netflix. I’m the David Letterman of Psychology. And that’s not easy for everyone. But my show, which will teach people how to make meaning out of loss, should help those struggling with my recent Hollywood ascent. Oh, and tell Greg his entourage got nothin’ on mine.”

”Love and Loss with Bob Neimeyer” is scheduled to start streaming on Netflix in July.

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