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25th International Congress 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.

Journal of Constructivist Psychology, Vol. 36, Issue 1 (2023)

2/20/2023

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.

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.

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.

PCP 2022 Congress

2/14/2022

The Organizing Committee is pleased to invite you to the next International Personal Construct Psychology Congress entitled “The encounter with the other: the space where love and threat confront each other.” The congress will take place in person at the University of Padua between the 13th and 16th of July 2022.

The Congress will coincide with the celebration of the 800th anniversary of the ancient University of Padua in this beautiful City, home of Renaissance Art.

Abstract submissions are open up to the 28th of February. To submit a presentation, a symposium, a workshop or a poster, please open the abstract submission form. Early-bird registration is available until 15th of April. For any further information, please visit https://www.pcp2021.org
Looking forward to meeting you all in person again,
The Organising Committee
info@pcp2021.org