• ARTICLES, Special Section, XIIIth Biennial Conference of the EPCA - 2016

Recent advances in personal construct psychotherapy

Chiari, G.

Keywords:
personal construct psychotherapy, hermeneutic constructivist psychotherapy, disorder, forms of uncompleted recognition

Abstract:
Kelly has repeatedly invited to experiment with his theory to prove its fertility. However, personal construct theory and its application to psychotherapy have seen few developments. A recent contribution comes from Walker’s revision of the notion of psychological disorder which opens new perspectives to the understanding of several psychological events. Other contributions come from the narrative hermeneutic approach. The outline of personal paths of dependency, and the more recent proposal of forms of uncompleted recognition, are just examples of such a line of research that arises from a phenomenological and hermeneutic interpretation and elaboration of personal construct theory and psychotherapy