Volume 6, Number 2, October 2018
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Editorial:
by Massimo Giliberto

Articles:
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Helen Jones – A personal memory
by Mary Frances
Translated by Lucia Andreatta
Mary FrancesHelen Jones - a personal memoryMary Frances is a consultant and facilitator working with individuals, groups and organisations to support change and transition. She is also a teacher of PCP and constructivist theory and practice. She specialises in work with public services, education, and the arts, and her current interests include collaborative and practitioner research, storytelling & narrative, working with images & metaphor, and exploring the conversational change processes of everyday working life. She is the Director of the ICP International Lab.

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Helen Jones – a personal memory (English Original Version)
by Mary Frances
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Working with couples
by Peter Cummins and Helen Jones
Translated by Elisa Cappellari and Jessica Dagani
AbstractWorking with couplesHaving reviewed the literature on Personal Construct therapy with couples, a brief 5 session model, derived from the work of Ernesto Spinelli, for working with couples, is described. A clinical example of working in this way is then provided. The advantages of working within this framework are discussed.
Key words: relationships, couples, individual sessions, separate sessions, Spinelli.
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Shades of courage. Emotional dimensions of courage in the family semantic polarities model
by Valeria Ugazio and Ferdinando Salamino
AbstractShades of courage. Emotional dimensions of courage in the family semantic polarities modelThis article puts forward the hypothesis that courage varies accordingly with the dominant meanings through which people construct their own world. Delving into the model of family semantic polarities (Ugazio, 1998; 2012/13), the Authors identify different shades of courage within the semantics of freedom, goodness, power and belonging and illustrate and discuss them providing example from their clinical practice and from literature. The goals people aim at when acting courageously, the threats they feel and obstacles that entangle them are different in the four shades of courage discussed. The threat within the semantic of freedom is represented by the dangers the world is fraught with, in front of which the individual is constructed as vulnerable. Autonomy is the purpose, since losing autonomy means to lose value in front of oneself and the family. Fear is thereby the obstacle. Facing the world alone is the paramount shade of courage within this semantic. Breaking the siege of guilt is the principal shade of courage within the semantic of goodness. Being brave within this semantic means to trespass the boundaries established by a moral code perceived as oppressive. Consequently, the threat is to become corrupt and the obstacle is guilt, whereas the aim is to feel alive. Winning alone is the prevalent shade of courage within the semantic of power. It requires overcoming the need of approval (obstacle) and facing others’ envy in order to gain one-upmanship (aim). Within the semantic of belonging, being courageous means accepting the fate of a stray dog in order to retain the dignity. Exclusion and loneliness are the threat whereas the hope to be love and included is the obstacle, since it may led to the loss of dignity.
Key words: Eating disorders, Phobic disorders, Obsessive-compulsive disorder, Depression, Family semantic polarities.
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Lifelong playing. The game as a psychological experience.
by Laura Scartezzini
AbstractLifelong playing. The game as a psychological experience.This work moves from the idea that games can represent tools for meaningful experiences that can be tested without being threatened. Starting from the hypothesis of a player-system within the personal construct system, I analysed the player’s main psychological processes and I designed a technique that combines the purpose of psychotherapy with the experiential power of the game.
Key words: game, player, experience, psychotherapy, technique.

Interviews:
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Interview with Elisabetta Petitbon: the Irish experience between Anger therapy and political commitment. e impegno politico
by Sara Condotti, Maria Giulia Panetta, Vito Stoppa
Elisabetta PetitbonInterview with Elisabetta Petitbon: the Irish experience between Anger therapy and political commitment.Elisabetta Petitbon is a Psychologist and Psychotherapist that lives and works in Ireland. She started her career in 2003, as a Psychology researcher in Italy. She moved in Ireland in 2007 to work as Clinical Psychology with kids and teenagers for the Irish public health service, Health Services Executive (HSE). In Dublin, she works privately as Psychotherapist in English and Italian, and offers clinical/educationals evaluations.
Elisabetta is Chair of the Irish Constructivist Psychotherapy Association (ICPA) and of the Psychological Society of Ireland (PSI) (Membership, Qualifications and Registration Committee), she's a member of the executive committee of the Irish Council for Psychotherapy (ICP). Furthermore, she created a group of therapy for men with problems with the expression of anger in HESED House in Dublin. Recently, Elisabetta is politically committed with the Irish Senate and the groups that represent the Irish Psichotherapists in order to let psychotherapy recognized according to European standards, and by ensuring professional and ethical standards.
Key words:: PCP, Anger Therapy, Italian psychology, Irish psychology.
Book Reviews:
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“Constructivist Approaches and Research Methods. A practical guide to exploring personal meanings” by Pam Denicolo, Trevor Long, Kim Bradley-Cole
by Laura Pomicino
Glossary:
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The C-P-C Cycle
by Mary Frances
Translated by Cecilia Pagliardini e Davide Scapin