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EDITORIAL

Editorial
by Massimo Giliberto

ARTICLES

Assessing perceptions of Di Fausto’s neo-traditional architecture based on Personal Construct Theory.
di Ahmed Agiel, Jon Lang e Peter
AbstractAssessing perceptions of Di Fausto’s neo-traditional architecture based on Personal Construct Theory.Currently there is a major debate in architectural circles between two groups of scholars and professionals. One group completely rejects learning from and drawing on past architectures in creating new works while the other one builds a new architecture based on the past. Using personal construct methodology, this study examines the work of Di Fausto, as expressed in three Libyan designs of the 1930s. Results showed that a different architectural ‘brand image’ and an ‘ideal image’ exist in each culturally different region. Architectural design both as it taught and in practice must change towards incorporating the ‘inherent image’ of the local inhabitants in the creative thinking process of new buildings if those buildings are to be meaningful for them.

Key words: Architectural schools of thought, brand image, ideal image, inherent image, personal construct methodology.

The story of Desdemona: psychotherapy conducted with a PCP approach
by Massimo Giliberto
AbstractThe story of Desdemona: psychotherapy conducted with a PCP approachThis presentation is an exploration of a client-therapist relationship and the story of their experiences in the context of psychotherapy. Through the case of a female victim of domestic violence – who repeatedly chose violent men as partners – it is an investigation into how, using Personal Construct Psychology, the therapist understands his client and how this understanding channels new experiments in the psychotherapy room and in the life of the client. It also explores how these new experiences contribute to changing the client’s identity constructs, helping her to change from the role of ‘victim’ to taking her own life back.

Key words: sociality, role, psychotherapy, experience, domestic violence.

On construing a disorder: An unusual case of borderline.
di Nada Dimcovic
AbstractOn construing a disorder: An unusual case of borderline.A young man came to psychotherapy, claiming that he had Borderline Personality Disorder. The problem was his lifelong emotional reaction to rejection. As a child he was diagnosed as having enuresis, encopresis, ADHD and depression. When well, he acted as an able person who had worked in many capacities. Did he really suffer from BPD? Was he now, at the age of 35, acting as ‘borderline’, as ‘normal’, or both? We investigated his many roles comprising his dominant narrative, and tried to find out ways for him to break the cycle.

Key words: DSM – IV; personality disorder; personal construct psychotherapy; constructivism

Sport psychology from a comprehensive PCP point of view.
di Francesca Del Rizzo
AbstractSport psychology from a comprehensive PCP point of view.The range of convenience of PCP (Kelly, 1991) has proved to be quite large, and one of the fields in which it can fully prove its usefulness is sport psychology. In the past, thanks in particular to the contributions of Richard Butler (1997; 2000) and David Savage (1999; 2003), we had important examples of the way in which PCP tools can help understand and facilitate athletes' and coaches' experiences. In this paper I will try to look at sportspersons' experience through the lenses of PCP and in particular of the Sociality Corollary. In the first part I will outline my tentative effort to subsume athletic experience by means of PCP professional constructs. In the second part I will illustrate my constructivist approach by means of a case study.

Key words: constructivist sport psychology, sociality corollary, personal construct psychology.

“In whom confide?”: Exploring the Christian-Catholic perspective
di Valentina Sosero
Abstract“In whom confide?”: Exploring the Christian-Catholic perspectiveThe religious dimension can represent an important aspect in a person’s life. How can Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) contribute to the understanding of this construction? The present work is an exploration of religious constructions in a group of Catholic-Christian believers, as well as in a group of people who do not feel represented by a religious credo. We will make some hypotheses and reflections around the construct of spirituality explored in both the research groups. Finally, we will use the PCP professional construct of “dependency dispersion” to understand to whom the people of both groups turn to, when they are in need.

Key words: religion, spirituality, dependency, PCP

INTERVIEWS

The art of listening: interview with Marianella Sclavi
by Federica Cristaudo, Camilla Farinelli, Giulia Marcon e Claudia Scalise
AbstractRaccontami lo storytelling: intervista a Giovanna ConfortoMarianella Sclavi is an expert in “The Art of Listening and Creative Management of Conflicts” and their applications in participatory methodologies. She is graduated in sociology. She lived in New York from 1984 to 1992, where she wrote two books: “A una spanna da terra” and “La signora va nel Bronx”, in which she experimented and she proposed an ethnographic narrative guided by “a humorous methodology”. She taught Urban Ethnography at the Politecnico in Milan from 1993 to 2008. She worked as a consultant in various participatory processes and the conflict situations. In 2008, she founded the consulting company on participatory processes “Active Listening”, based in Milan. Since 2005, she has collaborated with the Consensus Builing Institute of MIT (Boston) and since 2009 with the Master in Conflict Resolution and Governance, University of Amsterdam. In Italy, she has been a teacher since the foundation (in 2002) of the IUAV Specialization Course: “Participatory Local Action and Public Debate”, which in 2020 became a ProPart Master

Key words: active listening, humor, conflict management, constructivism.

BOOK REVIEWS

“L’egoismo è inultile. Elogio della Gentilezza” di George Saunders
by Matteo Stocco

GLOSSARY

Valutazione costruttivista
di Robert A. Neimeyer e Heidi Levitt