- Title
- Alienation from a PCP perspective: theoretical considerations and some mental health and mental health education implications
- Creator
- Warren, Bill
- Relation
- Personal Constructivism: Theory and Applications p. 135-151
- Relation
- http://www.pace.edu/press/browse-books/constructivist-psychology/personal-constructivism
- Publisher
- Pace University Press
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2009
- Description
- This paper draws together a number of ideas that have been raised previously in personal construct psychology (PCP), but these are now differently focused or framed here by the important social-psychological notion of alienation. In particular, the idea of an artistic outlook has been discussed, drawing on the work of Friedrich Schiller (1759-1805), and the alignment of this outlook with the model of the person as a scientist that informs PCP has been explored. That alignment is relevant to this present topic and provides an underlying theme for the paper. Further, the idea of a democratic or egalitarian outlook in relation to PCP, particularly in relation to mental health is also relevant. Both of these ideas go to the matter of alienation: Why is it a problem in the life of the individual and the group, and what might be the PCP position in regard to overcoming that problem? In turn, also relevant are some ideas of Paulo Freire, ideas that have been considered in terms of their value in elaborating how the expression "applied psychology" is understood in PCP, but which have equal interest to questions about PCP and alienation. This last understanding goes, again, to a view of how intra- and inter- personal relationships might be such as to overcome or neutralize alienation, rather than perpetuate it. Thus is an opportunity to reflect on the concept of alienation from the perspective of PCP a welcome one.
- Subject
- personal construct psychology (PCP); alientation; mental health
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/918155
- Identifier
- uon:8529
- Identifier
- ISBN:0944473946
- Language
- eng
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