Conference Presentations by Cristina Sassi
This paper was presented in a short form at the XXIst International Congress on Personal Construc... more This paper was presented in a short form at the XXIst International Congress on Personal Construct Psychology -PCP at 60: Past, Present and Future - University of Hertfordshire, Hatfield, UK 15th - 17th July 2015.
Starting from several considerations on the nature of self-other differentiation from a developmental point of view, we will trace some trajectories of development by imagining their possible implications on Role in adults.
To conceive living systems in terms of the process that realizes them, instead of explaining them simply through their relationship with the environment, implies abandoning a deterministic view of development in favour of a more modern conception in which mother and child mutually define each other.
We wish to contribute to Chiari’s conceptualization of the Forms of Uncompleted Recognition; forms in which two or more actors, in the attempt to maintain their relationship with the another, exclude aspects of themselves and of the other at the expense of realizing an individualization and/or interdependency.
We will illustrate the implications of uncompleted recognition in clinical psychology and psychotherapy.
Over the last couple of years G. Chiari and colleagues have reexamined the work of the French phi... more Over the last couple of years G. Chiari and colleagues have reexamined the work of the French philosopher P. Ricœur and have advanced new theorisations in the field of PCT: the Paths of Uncompleted Recognition, and the distinction between Idem and Ipse as essential moments of the identity's development. In this way the already described Paths of Dependency have been integrated. These new theorisations represent complementary perspectives of the therapist's professional construction of the client's construction system. In accordance with the previous formulations, this work is aimed at still further integrating the new perspectives with the practice of psychotherapy, emphasizing the therapist's role and his/her orthogonal interaction with clients depending on the different kinds of Path of Uncompleted Recognition and on the disposition in the two poles of self development: Idem and Ipse.
Papers by Cristina Sassi
Special Issue: Embracing Innovation: New Voices in Constructivist Psychology, Jan 2, 2017
This article focuses on the training of hermeneutic constructivist psychotherapists and aims to p... more This article focuses on the training of hermeneutic constructivist psychotherapists and aims to point out those aspects that make the group such a privileged place for the construction of the professional role. It hypothesized that the group, as a closed and transitory context, can promote an openness to the exploration of different alternatives and the experimentation of the professional role. The article concentrates especially on applying the psychotherapy group theory of G. A. Kelly to the group training of hermeneutic constructivist psychotherapists, describing this process through the experience cycle (Kelly, 1995) in the perspective of a transformative experience. Starting from the basic theories behind the therapeutic process, illustration will follow of the training procedure formulated to allow working with the group within a context of relationships that favor learning and experimentation of new roles. The various phases of group therapeutic training will then be illustrated. These have been formulated to enable working within the group in a relational context that favors the role of therapist construction, coming from the elaboration of certain areas of the personal system and from experimentation and the elaboration of this new role itself.
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Conference Presentations by Cristina Sassi
Starting from several considerations on the nature of self-other differentiation from a developmental point of view, we will trace some trajectories of development by imagining their possible implications on Role in adults.
To conceive living systems in terms of the process that realizes them, instead of explaining them simply through their relationship with the environment, implies abandoning a deterministic view of development in favour of a more modern conception in which mother and child mutually define each other.
We wish to contribute to Chiari’s conceptualization of the Forms of Uncompleted Recognition; forms in which two or more actors, in the attempt to maintain their relationship with the another, exclude aspects of themselves and of the other at the expense of realizing an individualization and/or interdependency.
We will illustrate the implications of uncompleted recognition in clinical psychology and psychotherapy.
Papers by Cristina Sassi
Starting from several considerations on the nature of self-other differentiation from a developmental point of view, we will trace some trajectories of development by imagining their possible implications on Role in adults.
To conceive living systems in terms of the process that realizes them, instead of explaining them simply through their relationship with the environment, implies abandoning a deterministic view of development in favour of a more modern conception in which mother and child mutually define each other.
We wish to contribute to Chiari’s conceptualization of the Forms of Uncompleted Recognition; forms in which two or more actors, in the attempt to maintain their relationship with the another, exclude aspects of themselves and of the other at the expense of realizing an individualization and/or interdependency.
We will illustrate the implications of uncompleted recognition in clinical psychology and psychotherapy.