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The modern idea of imprisonment in the West seems to have intentionally portrayed corporal punish... more The modern idea of imprisonment in the West seems to have intentionally portrayed corporal punishment as threatening. It was the foundation and the fulcrum of the principle of 'humanisation' of prisons. At the basis of this principle there is a common dichotomy: 'mind' and 'body' as two distinct things. This occurs so frequently that it might be thought that suffering of the mind (or soul) due to the deprivation of liberty is not comparable to the suffering of the flesh, to physical harm. Can there be, however, an obvious comparison? Behind a seemingly unbloody appearance, assuming a monist rather than dualist point of view, detentive punishment can take on a very different aspect. People who have gone through this experience speak of it as one which involves the person in their entirety and which can be described in the domains of both language and knowledge, mental and physical. "Life changes here" is an expression which could become global: people speak of this change and often this loss of self, as also being in the body and in the modifications of the senses.

Journal of Constructivist Psychology, Sep 25, 2020

The history of humanity can also be seen as a history of ideas. Ideas, like peoples, cross time a... more The history of humanity can also be seen as a history of ideas. Ideas, like peoples, cross time and space. Sometimes, like a karst river, they sink then reappear in another time, in another place. Ideas, from a Personal Constructivist Psychology perspective, are constructs that channelize our experience and are, at the same time, rooted in experience. Ideas are paths to follow, ways forward into the future. Cultural groups, like tribes, identify themselves with these paths, which occasionally intersect other paths, interweaving or not. The stories of these ideas can be narrated. Even constructivism, intended in a comprehensive way, in its various forms and names, could be seen as a long story, whose traces emerge here and there over time and space. This presentation is the attempt to tell this story, tracing its signs, the reoccurring, common questions and answers that have generated and characterized it, albeit in different historical periods and places. Further effort will be made to tell the story, entrenched in this wider story, of one of its "tribes," Personal Construct Psychology, and trying to imagine its future.

Kaleidoscopic process: the construction of adolescence from teenagers' and parents' point of view

Cuadernos de psiquiatría y psicoterapia del niño y del adolescente, 2018

Looking at adolescence from teenagers and parents' point of view might channel different narr... more Looking at adolescence from teenagers and parents' point of view might channel different narratives about what this process can be and how they both construe their relationship. The present work is a two stages preliminary research: in the first one both adolescents’ and parents’ reciprocal constructions about themselves, the others and adolescence were collected. In the second stage authors presented to the same groups of participants their previously collected perceptions, in the form of Perceiver-Element Grid, and interviewed them about their responses to these. This work will share the outcomes of inviting parents and adolescents to “take the role of the other”, to see themselves through the other’s eyes. Further both clinical and research applications will be discussed.

Constructivism, Overview

Springer eBooks, 2014

PCP and Constructivism: Ways of Working, Learnign and Living

Counseling and psychotherapy in Italy: Historical, cultural, and indigenous perspectives

Handbook of Counseling and Psychotherapy in an International Context, 2013

ABSTRACT Gemignani, M. & Giliberto, M. (2012). A historical, cultural, and indigenous per... more ABSTRACT Gemignani, M. & Giliberto, M. (2012). A historical, cultural, and indigenous perspective on counseling and psychotherapy in Italy. In R. Moodley, U. Gielen, and R. Wu (Eds.), Handbook of counseling and psychotherapy in an international context (pp. 330-341). NY: Routledge. ISBN: 9780415872522 [http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415872522/]

Kaleidoscopic process: the construction of adolescence from teenagers' and parents' point of view

Looking at adolescence from teenagers and parents' point of view might channel different narr... more Looking at adolescence from teenagers and parents' point of view might channel different narratives about what this process can be and how they both construe their relationship. The present work is a two stages preliminary research: in the first one both adolescents’ and parents’ reciprocal constructions about themselves, the others and adolescence were collected. In the second stage authors presented to the same groups of participants their previously collected perceptions, in the form of Perceiver-Element Grid, and interviewed them about their responses to these. This work will share the outcomes of inviting parents and adolescents to “take the role of the other”, to see themselves through the other’s eyes. Further both clinical and research applications will be discussed.

The modern idea of imprisonment in the West seems to have intentionally portrayed corporal punish... more The modern idea of imprisonment in the West seems to have intentionally portrayed corporal punishment as threatening. It was the foundation and the fulcrum of the principle of ‘humanisation’ of prisons. At the basis of this principle there is a common dichotomy: ‘mind’ and ‘body’ as two distinct things. This occurs so frequently that it might be thought that suffering of the mind (or soul) due to the deprivation of liberty is not comparable to the suffering of the flesh, to physical harm. Can there be, however, an obvious comparison? Behind a seemingly unbloody appearance, assuming a monist rather than dualist point of view, detentive punishment can take on a very different aspect. People who have gone through this experience speak of it as one which involves the person in their entirety and which can be described in the domains of both language and knowledge, mental and physical. “Life changes here” is an expression which could become global: people speak of this change and often t...

Constructs as a Historical Creation and Continuous Process: The PCP Tribe from the past toward the Future

Journal of Constructivist Psychology

The history of humanity can also be seen as a history of ideas. Ideas, like peoples, cross time a... more The history of humanity can also be seen as a history of ideas. Ideas, like peoples, cross time and space. Sometimes, like a karst river, they sink then reappear in another time, in another place. ...

Constructions of burnout, identity, and self-care in professionals working toward the psychosocial care of refugees and asylum seekers in Italy

Journal of Constructivist Psychology

Walking like an Italian, speaking like an English person: Construing the cultural other and the self

“Culture's like an extra layer on top isn't it?” Sociality and Superordination in Italian and English People

Winter/The Wiley Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology, 2015

A journey between Constructivism and Phenomenology concerning Ethics: going beyond Relativism avoiding the temptation of Truth

A journey between Constructivism and Phenomenology concerning Ethics: going beyond Relativism avoiding the temptation of Truth

Il dolore fisico dal punto di vista di chi soffre

Editoriale, Rivista Italiana di Costruttivismo

Construing the cultural other and the self: A Personal Construct analysis of English and Italian perceptions of national character

Constructivism, overview

Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology, 2014

Counseling And Psychotherapy In Italy: An Historical, Cultural And Indigenous Perspective

What Part Could PCP Play in a Dialogue with Approaches Where There is no Alternative?

The modern idea of imprisonment in the West seems to have intentionally portrayed corporal punish... more The modern idea of imprisonment in the West seems to have intentionally portrayed corporal punishment as threatening. It was the foundation and the fulcrum of the principle of 'humanisation' of prisons. At the basis of this principle there is a common dichotomy: 'mind' and 'body' as two distinct things. This occurs so frequently that it might be thought that suffering of the mind (or soul) due to the deprivation of liberty is not comparable to the suffering of the flesh, to physical harm. Can there be, however, an obvious comparison? Behind a seemingly unbloody appearance, assuming a monist rather than dualist point of view, detentive punishment can take on a very different aspect. People who have gone through this experience speak of it as one which involves the person in their entirety and which can be described in the domains of both language and knowledge, mental and physical. "Life changes here" is an expression which could become global: people speak of this change and often this loss of self, as also being in the body and in the modifications of the senses.

Journal of Constructivist Psychology, Sep 25, 2020

The history of humanity can also be seen as a history of ideas. Ideas, like peoples, cross time a... more The history of humanity can also be seen as a history of ideas. Ideas, like peoples, cross time and space. Sometimes, like a karst river, they sink then reappear in another time, in another place. Ideas, from a Personal Constructivist Psychology perspective, are constructs that channelize our experience and are, at the same time, rooted in experience. Ideas are paths to follow, ways forward into the future. Cultural groups, like tribes, identify themselves with these paths, which occasionally intersect other paths, interweaving or not. The stories of these ideas can be narrated. Even constructivism, intended in a comprehensive way, in its various forms and names, could be seen as a long story, whose traces emerge here and there over time and space. This presentation is the attempt to tell this story, tracing its signs, the reoccurring, common questions and answers that have generated and characterized it, albeit in different historical periods and places. Further effort will be made to tell the story, entrenched in this wider story, of one of its "tribes," Personal Construct Psychology, and trying to imagine its future.

Kaleidoscopic process: the construction of adolescence from teenagers' and parents' point of view

Cuadernos de psiquiatría y psicoterapia del niño y del adolescente, 2018

Looking at adolescence from teenagers and parents' point of view might channel different narr... more Looking at adolescence from teenagers and parents' point of view might channel different narratives about what this process can be and how they both construe their relationship. The present work is a two stages preliminary research: in the first one both adolescents’ and parents’ reciprocal constructions about themselves, the others and adolescence were collected. In the second stage authors presented to the same groups of participants their previously collected perceptions, in the form of Perceiver-Element Grid, and interviewed them about their responses to these. This work will share the outcomes of inviting parents and adolescents to “take the role of the other”, to see themselves through the other’s eyes. Further both clinical and research applications will be discussed.

Constructivism, Overview

Springer eBooks, 2014

PCP and Constructivism: Ways of Working, Learnign and Living

Counseling and psychotherapy in Italy: Historical, cultural, and indigenous perspectives

Handbook of Counseling and Psychotherapy in an International Context, 2013

ABSTRACT Gemignani, M. & Giliberto, M. (2012). A historical, cultural, and indigenous per... more ABSTRACT Gemignani, M. & Giliberto, M. (2012). A historical, cultural, and indigenous perspective on counseling and psychotherapy in Italy. In R. Moodley, U. Gielen, and R. Wu (Eds.), Handbook of counseling and psychotherapy in an international context (pp. 330-341). NY: Routledge. ISBN: 9780415872522 [http://www.routledge.com/books/details/9780415872522/]

Kaleidoscopic process: the construction of adolescence from teenagers' and parents' point of view

Looking at adolescence from teenagers and parents' point of view might channel different narr... more Looking at adolescence from teenagers and parents' point of view might channel different narratives about what this process can be and how they both construe their relationship. The present work is a two stages preliminary research: in the first one both adolescents’ and parents’ reciprocal constructions about themselves, the others and adolescence were collected. In the second stage authors presented to the same groups of participants their previously collected perceptions, in the form of Perceiver-Element Grid, and interviewed them about their responses to these. This work will share the outcomes of inviting parents and adolescents to “take the role of the other”, to see themselves through the other’s eyes. Further both clinical and research applications will be discussed.

The modern idea of imprisonment in the West seems to have intentionally portrayed corporal punish... more The modern idea of imprisonment in the West seems to have intentionally portrayed corporal punishment as threatening. It was the foundation and the fulcrum of the principle of ‘humanisation’ of prisons. At the basis of this principle there is a common dichotomy: ‘mind’ and ‘body’ as two distinct things. This occurs so frequently that it might be thought that suffering of the mind (or soul) due to the deprivation of liberty is not comparable to the suffering of the flesh, to physical harm. Can there be, however, an obvious comparison? Behind a seemingly unbloody appearance, assuming a monist rather than dualist point of view, detentive punishment can take on a very different aspect. People who have gone through this experience speak of it as one which involves the person in their entirety and which can be described in the domains of both language and knowledge, mental and physical. “Life changes here” is an expression which could become global: people speak of this change and often t...

Constructs as a Historical Creation and Continuous Process: The PCP Tribe from the past toward the Future

Journal of Constructivist Psychology

The history of humanity can also be seen as a history of ideas. Ideas, like peoples, cross time a... more The history of humanity can also be seen as a history of ideas. Ideas, like peoples, cross time and space. Sometimes, like a karst river, they sink then reappear in another time, in another place. ...

Constructions of burnout, identity, and self-care in professionals working toward the psychosocial care of refugees and asylum seekers in Italy

Journal of Constructivist Psychology

Walking like an Italian, speaking like an English person: Construing the cultural other and the self

“Culture's like an extra layer on top isn't it?” Sociality and Superordination in Italian and English People

Winter/The Wiley Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology, 2015

A journey between Constructivism and Phenomenology concerning Ethics: going beyond Relativism avoiding the temptation of Truth

A journey between Constructivism and Phenomenology concerning Ethics: going beyond Relativism avoiding the temptation of Truth

Il dolore fisico dal punto di vista di chi soffre

Editoriale, Rivista Italiana di Costruttivismo

Construing the cultural other and the self: A Personal Construct analysis of English and Italian perceptions of national character

Constructivism, overview

Encyclopedia of Critical Psychology, 2014

Counseling And Psychotherapy In Italy: An Historical, Cultural And Indigenous Perspective

What Part Could PCP Play in a Dialogue with Approaches Where There is no Alternative?