Volume 7, Number 2, Ottobre 2019
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Editorial:
by Lila Vatteroni
Articles:
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Intersubjective Anticipation: Accountability, Anticipation, and Conversation as a Zero-Sum Game or, the (Real) Pleasures of a Pluralistic Society
by Carmen Dell’Aversano
Translated by Carmen Dell’Aversano
AbstractIntersubjective Anticipation: Accountability, Anticipation, and Conversation as a Zero-Sum Game or, the (Real) Pleasures of a Pluralistic SocietyTooltip content
Key words: Intersubjectivity, anticipation, accountability device, Harvey Sacks, PCP corollaries.
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A constructivist glimpse of a (not necessarily constructivist) therapy for foreigners and migrants.
by Simone Cheli, Joan Miquel Soldevilla-Alberti, Francesco Velicogna
AbstractA constructivist glimpse of a (not necessarily constructivist) therapy for foreigners and migrants.Changes in migratory flows and the constant and unstoppable process of cultural hybridization of our society forces therapists to define and develop interventions specifically aimed at people with recent or significant migration history. The aim of this article is to outline some principles based on a constructivist perspective that may support such a process. By integrating theoretical and clinical reflections, we focused on the crucial role of the following George A. Kelly's and other authors' assumptions: credulous approach, narrative perspective and non-verbal constructions. We tried to motivate how a constructivist perspective should not necessarily be constrained to interventions defined as constructivist, but rather to act as a starting point for a clinical practice aimed at supporting foreigners or migrants.
Key words: Constructivism, personal constructs psychology, migrants, third wave of CBT.
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2018 Italian political elections: Lega and the construction of a threat narrative.
by Francesca Del Rizzo
Abstract2018 Italian political elections: Lega and the construction of a threat narrative.Lega is an Italian party that had a major role in recent political elections in Italy. It came out as the third party in the country and the first in the North. By means of a Personal Construct Psychology (Kelly, 1955) perspective, in this paper I will ipothesize that Salvini's Lega conquered the vote of so many Italians thanks to rhetoric of threat. This hypothesis is tested by means of the analysis of the constructs emerging from the election campaign main slogans. Eventually some reflections are made on the constructs used by many of the persons living in the North of Italy to read the current situation of the country.
Key words: Personal Construct Psychology, Lega Nord, election campaign, political communication, threat transition.
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Engaging host society youth in exploring how they construe the influence of social media on the resettlement of Syrian refugees.
by Nadia Naffi, Ann-Louise Davidson
AbstractEngaging host society youth in exploring how they construe the influence of social media on the resettlement of Syrian refugees.It is often difficult for youth to recognize and share their construct systems let alone to discuss how these systems guide their thoughts and behaviours. The purpose of this methodological article is two-fold: firstly, it aims to present and detail four interview techniques we adapted from Personal Construct Psychology, to use in a physically co-located or in an online approach, with 42 participants between 16 and 24 years-old from a variety of North American and European countries affected by the Syrian refugee influx; secondly it presents a five-step approach to data analysis, with the aim to develop an in-depth understanding of the participants’ construct systems. Our objective was to explore how this youth construed online interactions about the Syrian refugee crisis and how they anticipated the influence of social media content on the resettlement of Syrian refugees in host countries.
Key words: Resettlement, Syrian refugee crisis, social media, qualitative grids, Repertory Grid Test, youth.
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Themes of radicalisation revealed through the personal constructs of Jihadi terrorists.
by Sudhanshu Sarangi, David Canter, Donna Youngs
AbstractThemes of radicalisation revealed through the personal constructs of Jihadi terrorists.To contribute to an understanding of the individual psychologies that characterise people who carry out acts of terrorism, four distinct themes are proposed that can each dominate Islamic terrorist’s conceptualisations of his/her own actions: Islamic Jihad, Political Jihad, Social and Criminal. These themes are illustrated from interviews with people convicted of Jihadi-related acts of terrorism within India. The interviews utilised Kelly’s Repertory Grid procedure, thus allowing the Personal Construct System of the interviewees to be explored in association with their accounts of their lives. These case studies provide rare insights from the terrorists themselves, indicating important similarities across individuals as well as distinct differences in the structure of their thinking that inform considerations of radicalisation and approaches to facilitating disengagement.
Key words: Terrorism, repertory grid, Jihad, radicalisation.
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Immigration and Personal Construct Psychology, between ethics and new common identities: of Dušan Stojnovs’ point of view.
by Lila Vatteroni
Dušan StojnovImmigration and Personal Construct Psychology, between ethics and new common identities: of Dušan Stojnovs’ point of view.Dušan Stojnov is a tenured Professor at the Psychology Department of the Faculty of Psychology, University of Belgrade. As a researcher he has participated in various projects with the Institute of Criminology, Institute of Psychology and Institute for Educational Research. His interest lies in reading Personal Construct Psychology in a social constructionist key, and establishing the links between PCP and the teachings of Foucault and Goffman. In his practical work, in addition to therapy, he is also involved with coaching, where he attempts to apply the principles of appreciative inquiry with the practice of Personal Construct Coaching and performative practice.
Key words:: Personal Construct Psychology, ethics, immigration, psychotherapy, Piaget.
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Experiences:
Practicing asylum seekers’ reception among tensions, recompositions and discoveries.
by Elisa Michelon e Giulia Storato
AbstractPracticing asylum seekers' reception among tensions, recompositions and discoveries.n the last years forced migrations flows have been increasing on the national territory, leading to changes in the reception system for refugees and asylum seekers. Within this system, which is still evolving, the two authors worked performing different professional roles (as psychologist and as social worker). In this article we presented, as an autobiographical tale, the tensions, the fractures and the re-compositions, both personal and of our role, we experienced in our everyday work. Starting from an analysis of the reception system’s structure and of the power dynamics embedded in it, we describe the daily efforts in opening spaces for the recognition of received people’s agency, facilitated by a change in our positioning. Self-reflexivity, and the consequent availability to challenge the dominant representations, is presented as a methodology that allows to open new interpretative spaces and to re-think not only the relationship with the received people, but also the relationship with the wider “diversities”.
Key words: school, constructivism, group, contest, personal meaning.
Book Reviews:
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“La manomissione delle parole” by Gianrico Carofiglio
by Lorenzo Gios
Glossary:
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Construals of society
by Devorah Kalekin-Fishman
Translated by Cecilia Pagliardini e Davide Scapin
