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Franz Epting (1937-2023)

7/2/2023

 
Dr. Franz Epting, Emeritus Professor of Counseling Psychology at the University of Florida, passed away on June 19, 2023. He was born in Meridian, Mississippi to John Forest Epting and Love Stewart Epting on May 22, 1937. He grew up in Forest Mississippi and lived there until he entered Millsaps College in Jackson Mississippi in the fall of 1955. In 1959 he enrolled at the Ohio State University as a graduate student in Psychology and took his PhD in the spring of 1967. Franz lived in Gainesville, Florida from the time he came to the University of Florida in the fall of 1967 as what he called a "baby professor" until his passing. He taught at UF for 36 years until his retirement in 2003. He was also a member of Holy Trinity Episcopal Church in Gainesville.

Franz taught and wrote about Humanistic Psychology and Personal Construct Psychology, which was his special area of expertise and his passion. He had many professional accomplishments. Among the most important was that he was president of Division 32 for Humanistic Psychology of the American Psychological Association in 2003 and later received the Abraham Maslow award from them for his lifetime's work. Franz published many professional articles, both research and theoretical, and in 1984 published his book "Personal Construct Counseling and Psychotherapy." In his retirement he worked on a biography of George Kelly, the creator of Personal Construct Psychology and Franz's professor at Ohio State. The biography will be completed by his former student Jonathan Raskin and published by Cambridge University Press. Franz was the kind of teacher who was loved by and had a profound impact on many of his students. As two former students wrote, "you know what an important part Franz played in our lives at a time when we were being shaped as the human beings we are now. Our world was so much better for his presence in it." Franz truly embodied the humanistic values that were the bedrock of what he taught.

He was preceded in death by his parents. He is survived by his loving husband of 8 and a half years and partner of 28 and a half years, Mark Paris. He is also survived by two of his many cousins who were especially important to him, Cornelia Leach and Marion Register.

Burial and an informal ceremony of remembrance will take place at Prairie Creek Conservation Cemetery on Sunday, July 2, 2023 at 11:00. For those who wish, contributions may be made to the Human Rights Campaign. Arrangements are in the care of Milam Funeral and Cremation Services 311 S. Main Street Gainesville, FL 32601 (352) 376-5361 www.milamfh.com. 

Reproduced from Legacy.com. 
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Journal of Constructivist Psychology, Volume 36, Issue 3 (2023)

6/17/2023

 
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Issue 3 for 2023 now available!

​See contents here.

Journal of Constructivist Psychology, Volume 36, Issue 2 (2023)

4/3/2023

 
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Issue 2 for 2023 now available. 

Special Section:
Meaning in Life and Society

Guest Editors:
​Joel Vos, Pninit Russo-Netzer, and Stefan E. Schulenberg

Florida Bans Constructive Alternativism

4/1/2023

 
​As if they hadn’t banned enough things in recent times, the State of Florida went ahead this week and banned constructive alternativism. 
 
“Constructive alternativism is a perverted and, frankly, un-American lifestyle choice,” said Governor Ron DeSantis at the ceremony in Tallahassee where he signed the bill into law on Friday. “In fact, it is one among the many alternative ‘lifestyles’ ruining our nation. I can proudly say that in Florida, it will not be tolerated. If you engage in it, prepare to be prosecuted.”
 
When informed by reporters that constructive alternativism was an obscure theoretical concept from a 1950s psychological theory and not a sexual orientation, Governor DeSantis seemed undeterred, and a little confused.
 
“Those are just not the kinds of alternatives we want Floridians to have,” said the governor.
 
“Are you saying that Americans must be accumulative fragmentalists?” asked one reporter.
 
“Well, um, sure. Yeah. Of course!” stammered DeSantis. “Accumulative fragma … fragma … whatever you call it … it, um, is at the core of American capitalism. Right? After all, in the U.S., we live by the motto ‘he who accumulates the most wins!’” 
 
Reactions across Florida were mixed. Some people were skeptical of the new law, feeling it distracted from the governor’s central agenda. 
 
“Why aren’t we staying focused on banning the important things in Florida?” asked Bradley Gunn, a parent of two in Lakeland. “You know, like books and gay people.”
 
But others were more sanguine.
 
“Constructive alternativism is like marijuana. It’s a gateway to more dangerous forms of constructivism,” said Mary Anne McGroin of Stark. “Once people start exploring alternative epistemologies, who knows where it could lead.”
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Governor DeSantis signs bill outlawing constructive alternativism.

25th International CongressĀ on Personal Construct Psychology in Barcelona from July 10 to 13, 2023

3/19/2023

 
The 25th International Congress on Personal Construct Psychology will be held in Barcelona, Spain from July 10-13, 2023. It is an invitation for anyone interested in personal construct theory (PCT) from whatever background to come and share their ideas regarding the application and development of PCT. We welcome the participation of practitioners, academics, researchers and students from a PCT background as well as from related approaches such as constructivists, constructionists and narrative. The welcome extends to anyone using or critiquing PCT and its related methodologies such as repertory and qualitative grids, and laddering.

The International Congresses aim to explore developments and applications of methods of PCT across the diverse range of fields of research and practice that it has informed including education, counselling, business, the arts, architecture, and religion. A common feature underpinning these diverse fields is the personal construing of people as they generate meaning and make choices based on their personal experience.
  
Barcelona is hosting the International PCP Congress for the second time after almost 30 years. The first time was in 1995.

The congress is sponsored by the George Kelly Society (GKS). See the congress website for further details.
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Journal of Constructivist Psychology, Vol. 36, Issue 1 (2023)

2/20/2023

 
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Issue 1 for 2023 is now available.

It features a special section on the Covid-19 pandemic.

​Table of contents


Journal of Constructivist Psychology, Vol. 35, Issue 4 (2022)

11/27/2022

 
Check out the final issue of 2022, including a special section on Ancient Wisdom: Anticipating the Future.
Cover of JCP, 2022 (Issue 4)

Journal of Constructivist Psychology, Vol. 35, Issue 3 (2022)

9/5/2022

 
Issue 3 of the 2022 volume has been published.

It includes a Special Section on Sociality, Intersubjectivity, and Social Conflict.

Issue contents available here.

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Journal of Constructivist Psychology, Vol. 35, Issue 2 (2022)

5/15/2022

 
Special Section: Revisiting “Truth” in an Era of “Post-Truth”
Article
Introduction: Revisiting “Truth” in an Era of “Post-Truth”
Lisa M. Osbeck & Stephen L. Antczak
Pages: 423-431

Article
Is Truth Relative?
Phil Washburn
Pages: 432-447

Article
Truth as Trophy: The Social Construction of Veracity
Spencer A. McWilliams
Pages: 448-459

Article
Truth and Affordances
Barbara S. Held
Pages: 460-477

Article
Truth, Half-Truth, and Post-Truth: Lessons from William James
Saulo de Freitas Araujo
Pages: 478-490

Article
Waves of Information, Suffocated Understanding, and the Place for Narrative Inquiry in the “Post-Truth” Era
James Christopher Head
Pages: 491-510

Article
Truth in a Post-Truth World: Transcendence and the Essence of Mattering
Edwin E. Gantt & Richard N. Williams
Pages: 511-536

Article
Freudian Frontiers of Psychoanalytic Theory and Therapy: A Case of Improvement of Scientific Knowledge?
Giridhari Lal Pandit
Pages: 537-563

Articles
Article
The Social Construction of Conspiracy Beliefs: A Q-Methodology Study of How Ordinary People Define Them and Judge Their Plausibility
Lauren Daniel & David J. Harper
Pages: 564-585

Article
Paths in Utopia: School as Holding Environment for the Dialogical Self
David Kennedy
Pages: 586-604

Article
Rasch Models in the Analysis of Repgrid Data
Daiana Colledani, Pasquale Anselmi & Egidio Robusto
Pages: 605-625

Article
Teachers’ Professional Identity Construction: A Sociocultural Approach to Its Definition and Research
Mariana Solari & Elena Martín Ortega
Pages: 626-655

Article
“If my Plan Doesn’t Work, I’ll Follow the Doctor’s Orders.” A Dialogical Self Analysis of Chronic Patients’ Medical Treatment Ambivalence
Pablo A. Herrera
Pages: 656-676

Article
The Application of the Repertory Grid in Forensic Practice
R. Kitson-Boyce, R. Wheatley & N. Blagden
Pages: 677-698

Article
The Narrating Self and the Experiencing Self in the Narratives of Women Who Have Experienced Trauma
Magdalena Kowalska, Mariusz Zięba & Katarzyna Wiecheć
Pages: 699-718

Article
What Predicts Meaning in Life? The Role of Perfectionistic Personality and Self-Compassion
Hanna Suh & Stephanie Shiqin Chong
Pages: 719-733

Article
Marking a Quiet Community: Analyzing Narratives of Community Reentry Among Filipino Plea Bargainers
Nico A. Canoy & Angelique Pearl Virtue P. Villasanta
Pages: 734-754

Article
Automated Leadership Assessments: Is Assessing Complexity an Option?
David Kraichy & Krista Uggerslev
Pages: 755-777

Article
Theoretical Pluralism in Transcultural Research: Chinese People Constructing Selves in the UK
Yijia Zuo & Tom Billington
Pages: 778-794

Article
Centrifugal–Centripetal Dynamics in the Dialogical Self: A Case Study of a Boundary Experience in Teacher Education
Alastair Henry & Maria Mollstedt
Pages: 795-814

Book Reviews
Book Review
Psy-disciplines, Cybernetic Theory, and the Social Control of Human Subjects
Review of Cybernetic Psychology and Mental Health: A Circular Logic of Control Beyond the Individual, by Timothy J. Beck, Routledge, 2020, 176 pp. 978-0367252946 (e-book)
Micah Ingle
Pages: 815-818

Book Review
“Start with a Case…”: Scaling up in Personal and Relational Construct Psychology
Review of Personal and Relational Construct Psychotherapy, by Harry Procter and David Winter, Palgrave Macmillan, Cham, Switzerland, 2020, 387 pp., 32,09 Eur., ISBN 978-3-030-52177-6
Jelena Pavlović
Pages: 819-822

Book Review
Radical Challenges to Psychiatry and the Conventional Treatment of Mental Health in the late 1960’s and 70s
Hans A. Skott-Myhre
Pages: 823-826

Book Review
Transgressive Trans Desires as Epistemology: A Radically Practical Resource
Mallaigh McGinley
Pages: 827-835

Book Review
Looking Through the lens of system justification
Evan A. Valdes
Pages: 836-840

Book Review
Not Quite Beyond the DSM
Jonathan D. Raskin
Pages: 841-843

Journal of Constructivist Psychology, Vol. 35, Issue 1 (2022)

3/9/2022

 
Check out the first of our 2022 mega-issues! 
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/upcy20/35/1?nav=tocList

Includes a special section on the Power Threat Meaning Framework. 
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