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WORKING WITH COUPLES
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Peter Cummins *, Helen Jenes **
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* Coventry Constructivist Centre, Coventry, UK
** Northern PCP Research Group, York, UK |
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Abstract
The workshop
presented at the EPCA 2016 conference, after highlighting the strong
connections between PCP and contemporary arts and their effectiveness in
improving organisational growth,
introduced a methodology for operating inside organisations which assumes the
co-construction of the intervention by a PCP consultant, responsible for the
analysis of client’s needs and group processes, an artist, the catalyst for
change, and a producer, the crucial mediator between consultant, client and
artist. The workshop participants experienced this intervention methodology by
working directly with an artist and realizing a collective artwork piece which
embodies the group answer to a question about PCT identity.
Key words: PCP, organisations,
contemporary arts, creativity
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About the authors
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 Peter Cummins first became involved in Personal
Construct Psychology as a Probationer Clinical Psychologist, when he was
supervised by Miller Mair, at the Crichton Royal Hospital, in Dumfries,
Scotland. He then worked as a Clinical Psychologist in the NHS and completed
the PCP diploma at the Centre For Personal Construct Psychology in 1986. After
34 years in the NHS he retired, and continues to work privately as a PCP
Psychotherapist and Supervisor. He has developed the way of working with couples
described above, in conjunction with Helen Jones, Dina
Pekkala and Diane Allen.
Contact: pac52@btinternet.com
 Helen Jones first became involved in
Personal Construct Psychology when she worked with Professor Fay Fransella, at
the Centre for Personal Construct Psychology. She then worked in the NHS in Management
Development, and later became Director of the Centre for Leadership Development
at the University of York. In retirement she has continued to work privately as
a PCP Psychotherapist and Supervisor.
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Cummins, P., Jones, H. (2017). Working with couples.
Personal Construct Theory & Practice, 14, 47-53
(Retrieved from http://www.pcp-net.org/journal/pctp17/cummins17.pdf)
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