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“The most severe psychological ‘disturbance’, concerning people often negatively categorized as ‘different’ BUT in light of the Constant and the Relative in Psychotherapy”
“Il ‘disturbo’ psicologico di maggiore gravità, che riguarda persone spesso classificate negativamente come ‘diverse’ MA alla luce della Costante e della Relatività in Psicoterapia”
November 9th, 2022
Intervention presented at the XVI International Forum of the Person-Centered Approach “BUILDING BRIDGES” – November 8-13th 2022 in Borgo di Tragliata, Fiumicino (Rome) and included in the Megadocument on the Forum PCA page
Material distributed during the Intervention
Questionnaire-Interview on Experiencing Psychotherapy
Questionnaire-Interview on Experiencing Family Psychotherapy
Bibliography in order of appearance in the intervention


Graciela Galindo Orozco, Maestra en Desarrollo Humano y Doctora en Ciencias de la Educación, in her volume “Guía para elaborar una tesis de investigación cualitativa de posgrado en Desarrollo Humano Centrado en las Personas” (December 2020) talks about the Lineas Differenciales de Desarrollo quoting in the ninth placed the Systemic-chaotic line illustrated by Alberto Segrera in his speech of October 2020 (see below) and among the Organizaciones Linked to the ECP she articulately names M. Mirella D’Ippolito.

Alberto S. Segrera, creator of the PCA International Forums and Académico emérito at the Universidad Iberoamericano Ciudad de México, at the I Seminario Internacional on-line ACP of the Conexâo Formativa of 9-10 October 2020 talks about the different lines of theoretical differential development of the ECP and at the minute 17.57 (see video link) exposes the ninth differential development saying: “… the ninth line … is the systemic-chaotic one … The origin is to integrate the elements of person and human groups as flexible and open systems on the ‘plantation’ of Chaos Theory, Quantum Physics and Neuroscience. Representatives … Maria Mirella D’Ippolito, hello Mirella, in Italy …[among others]”

Link YouTube – I Seminario Internacional on-line ACP: Segrera

Finhamba Quessangue Silva, psychologist from Guinea Bissau of the Valdo Máximo Vieira Mental Health Center in the same I Seminario Internacional online ACP, at the end of her speech among her beautiful answers to the questions, when they ask her how she was trained in the Centered Approach on the Persona she replies “thanks to a psychologist who is a friend of ours from Guinea Bissau, to Mirella, to Mirella. It was Mirella who pushed me… [towards] the Person Centered Approach… and I’m really appreciating it” (1 hour and 11 minutes of video in the link below).

Link YouTube – I Seminario Internacional on-line ACP: Finhamba Quessangue Silva


“The most severe ‘disturbance’, concerning people often negatively categorized as ‘different'”
July 20th 2014
from 13,30 to 15,30
Paper presented at the 11th Conference of the World Association for Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counseling –
PCE2014 “Beyond the frontiers … experiencing diversity”
July 20-24th, 2014 – Buenos Aires, Argentina


“The new Physics can help us”
Paper presented at the PCA2013:
XII International Forum for Person Centered Approach and X Brazilian Forum for Person Centered Approach – “Contemporary developments of Carl Roger’s thought”
pag. 4 Cumbuco/Ceará/Brasil
May 26th – June 01th, 2013


“Costante e relatività in psicologia clinica. Discussione su una casistica”
[The Constant and Relativ in clinical psychology. Discussion of case studies]
May 11th 2013 9,30-12,30
Seminar held by Dr. M. Mirella D’Ippolito
at the Department of Education of Catania’s University, in the Internship Events
Degree courses in Psychological Sciences and Techniques, and Psychology.


“A case of Anxiety in regard to the ‘Constant’ and the ‘Relative’ in Psychotherapy”
July 11th 2012 from 16,30 to 17,15
Paper presented at the 10th Conference of the World Association for Person-Centered and Experiential Psychotherapy and Counseling – PCE2012
“Working with anxiety: From symptom to self”
July 8-12th, 2012 – Antwerp, Belgium


“Costante e relatività in psicologia clinica. Discussione su una casistica”
[The Constant and Relativ in clinical psychology. Discussion of case studies]
March 10th 2012 at 9.30-12.30
Seminar held by Dr. M. Mirella D’Ippolito
at the Faculty of Educational Sciences of Catania’s University, in the Internship Events (Psychology).

... The Constant and the Relative