Re: Bipolarity and Dichotomy

Joern Scheer (Joern.Scheer@psycho.med.uni-giessen.de)
Fri, 20 Dec 1996 20:21:38 +0200

Dear Vic,
you asked about the availability of the book with contributions from
the European PCP Conference 1994.

> I was wondering if the book you talk about below is available in the U.S.,
> and if so, who is the publisher? If not, how can I obtain it or
> translations of it?
> Thanks much,
> Vic Jones

This how you can obtain it (and I'm adding the table of contents).
Maybe this is of interest to other "netters", too:

The book is available at a special 50% discount price directly from Joern
Scheer, Dept. of Medical Psychology, Friedrichstrasse 36, 35392
Giessen, Germany (Fax etc. see below).
Including air mail postage, the reduced price is DM 50 or the
equivalent in other currencies, e. g. L (Pound Sterling) 20; Lit.
50.000, Ptas. 5.000, US$ 30, AUS$ 40.
(Ground mail within Europe: DM 30 or L 15)
PLEASE SEND ONLY CASH MONEY, NO CHEQUES!

SCHEER, J. W., CATINA, A. (EDS.) (1996). Empirical Constructivism
In Europe. The Personal Construct Approach.
Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag.
288 pp. ISBN 3-930096-57-9

CONTENTS

Contributors
Preface

A short introduction to Personal Construct Psychology
- Joern W. Scheer

I. PERSONAL CONSTRUCT PSYCHOLOGY AND EUROPE

PCP and Europe: Introduction
- Joern W. Scheer

Whither Personal Construct Psychology in Europe? How might such an
organisation as EPCA contribute to its development?
- Fay Fransella

Britain after the Chunnel
- Peter Cummins

After 40 years of peace - war in the heart of Europe
- Dusan Stojnov

After the Wall - construct systems in united Germany
- Joern W. Scheer

II. THEORY AND METHODS

PCP: cognitive or social psychology?
- Trevor Butt

The dichotomy corollary as a fundamental brick in the construction of
PCT
- Ana Catina

The dichotomy corollary: basic or superfluous?
- Rainer Riemann

Personal construct theory and fuzzy-set-theory
- Vladimir Geroimenko

Potentials of the Grid Technique for construing questionnaire scales
- Christine Altstoetter-Gleich, Walter H. Schreiber

Autobiographical construing
- Martin Fromm

III. CONSTRUING DISORDER

Personal construct approach to depressive disorders: a short review
of the literature and preliminary results of two studies
- Horst Haltenhof, Joachim Stapenhorst, Roland Krusel

Aspects of the importance and function of "voices" of schizophrenic
patients - a study with the Repertory Grid Technique
- Klaus Bruecher, Frank Puchert, Roswita Hietel-Weniger

An investigation into the construct system of patients after an
attempt of suicide with special consideration of narcissistic
features
- Kerstin Bevenitz, Horst Haltenhof

Construct system development in different types of schizophrenia
- Mary Tyler

Measuring public attitudes towards people with mental illness using
Repertory Grid Technique
- Sawsan Reda

IV. CHANGE, PART ONE: THERAPY

Validation and invalidation
- Eric Button

Psychotherapy's contrast pole
- David A. Winter

The reconstruction of the self in the psychotherapy of chronic
schizophrenia: a case study with the Repertory Grid Technique
- Heinz Boeker

Multiple selves: how do clients perceive their positive and negative
sides?
- Franziska Sitzler, Ulrike Willutzki

V. CHANGE, PART TWO: DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSITION

Qualities of constructs for pregnancy with regards to visual
elements: individuality vs. stereotype
- Stefanie Neckermann, Hildegard Felder

Challenging health professionals to care
- Julie Ellis

Time orientation in young adults and elderly persons
- Bettina Bernhardi, Joern W. Scheer

Doctoral students: the integration of the research role in
professional lives
- Pam Denicolo

Views on personal and professional development: listening to peoples'
voices
- Ann Harwood, Pam Denicolo

Learning in action
- Sandra Tjok-a-Tam, Pam Denicolo

VI. CHANGE, PART THREE: TEACHERS AND LEARNERS

Empathy as a professional aptitude of teachers
- Stroe Marcus

The use of the Grid method in the Bremen model of "Educational
Supervision"
- Gert Jugert, Uwe Taenzer, Franz Petermann

Interprofessional education in nursing
- Godfrey N. Mazhindu, Maureen L. Pope

An assessment of a grid approach to evaluation of instructional
design of interactive videocassettes
- Beryl Crooks

Conflict stimulation and learning
- Linda Maund

Cheers!
Joern Scheer

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