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THE INTERNET ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF
PERSONAL CONSTRUCT PSYCHOLOGY |
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| Impressum |
| Transition | |
| The term refers to an actual or
impending change in one’s construct
system. Different transitions –
corresponding to as many diagnostic constructs (see diagnosis) – can be
discriminated on the basis of their reference to nuclear or peripheral
structures, to comprehensive or incidental changes, to the
participation of
one’s core role in the change, and other
criteria. Kelly (1955)
described six
constructs having to do with such dislodgment: threat,
fear, anxiety,
guilt, aggressiveness, and hostility, and two cycles of construction:
the C-P-C cycle
and the creativity cycle. McCoy (1977)
translated in terms of
transitions many
other emotions of traditional psychology. However, it is important not to consider transitions as simple equivalents of emotions. Kelly did not accept the mind-body duality and the cognition-emotion division. Rather, he tried to remain within the general framework of his own theory that, ontologically, is a form of monism (neutral monism) whereby both mind and matter are merely convenient ways of organizing events. The notion of transition has a fundamental role in personal construct psychotherapy. |
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| Gabriele Chiari & M. Laura Nuzzo |
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