news:
arts & personal construct psychology
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The Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 2008, Vol. 21, has a special section on PCP on "Construing in the arts", edited by Jörn Scheer and Viv Burr, with the following articles:
- Jörn Scheer and Viv Burr: Introduction to construing in the arts
- Nigel King: What will hatch? A constructivist autobiographical account of writing poetry.
- Robert A Neimeyer: The poetics of experience.
- Kenneth W. Sewell: Christmas present trilogy.
- Luis Botella: Timekeeping is everything: Rhythm and the construction of meaning.
- Viv Burr: "Bunches of grapes and bananas": Unconstruing the human body in life-drawing
- Carmen Dell'Aversano: Beyond dream and reality: Surrealism as reconstruction
- Harry Procter and Jane Procter: The use of qualitative grids to examine the development of the construct good and evil in Byron's play: "Cain: A mystery"
- Jörn Scheer: HTML - Highway to (Post) Modern Literature: Literary fiction in the cyber age
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Bob Neimeyer has just published his
first book of poetry, the reference to which is:
- Neimeyer, R. A. (2006), Rainbow in the Stone.
Memphis, TN: Mercury (96 pages).
It can at present be ordered for $15 US or
$15 Euros through the Center for the
Study of Loss and Transition; email kestory@bellsouth.net
for details.
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 'Creative
Construing - Personal Constructions in the Arts', edited by
Jörn Scheer and Kenneth Sewell, appeared in April 2006. It has
contributions by Don Bannister, Richard Bell, Sara Bridges, Sean
Brophy, Vivien Burr, Eric Button, Sabrina Cipolletta, Patrick Diamond,
Max Farrar, Mary Frances, Fay Fransella, Devorah Kalekin-Fishman,
Jonathan Raskin, Jörn Scheer, Kenneth Sewell, Chris Stevens.
Members of PCP groups can obtain it at a special price through
Jörn Scheer. See details.
(13-4-2006)
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At the VIIIth European Conference on
PCP, held in Kristianstad, Sweden April 8-11, a symposium on
PCP and the arts was held.
The conference web site is still accessible at: http://www.pcp-net.org/epca2006.
During an "Evening of Creative Construing", conference participants
presented a variety of artistic endeavours: a jazz band played, poets
read their own poems, poems by others were recited, too. Comedians
performed, folk songs and other tunes were sung, and a classical trio
performed lieder by Louis
Spohr, accompanied by piano and clarinet. Some participants also
presented drawings and collages in a little art exhibition. (13-4-2006)
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Inspired
by the symposium at the
Columbus conference, a network of PCP people with an
active interest in the arts has come to life, initiated by Jörn Scheer and Vivien Burr. Currently, more than
30
colleagues who either do research in
the arts or are creative
practitioners (as musicians, dancers, poets, painters etc.) have
joined. Access to the members' section of the network's website
requires a password. (12-8-2005)
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During
the XVIIth International
Congress on Personal Construct Psychology in Columbus, Ohio, USA, in
July 2005, a symposium was
held that focussed on PCP and the
arts, with
contributions on literature, music, singing, dancing, drama, and sitcoms.
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