A Theory of Personality: The Psychology of Personal Constructs (The Norton library)

George A. Kelly

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"A genuine new departure and a spirited contribution to the psychology of personality." —Jerome S. Bruner This original theory of personality is based on the concept that there are many workable ways by which individuals can construct their world. George Kelly's starting point and basic premise is that people's processes are psychologically channeled by the ways they anticipate events rather than by the ways they react to them. We develop new means of overcoming obstacles; we are, therefore, neither prisoners of our environment nor victims of our past.

In Dr. Kelly's groundbreaking theory, the patterns of our make-up, which he calls constructs, are the key to changing old patters. Each person anticipates events differently, and Dr. Kelly shows how we can begin to understand each person's unique constructs. In this way, a person is enabled to create alternative constructions—finding a sense of meaning in life, regaining control over his or her environment, and establishing new roads to mental health. This volume consists of the first three chapters of Kelly's two-volume work The Psychology of Personal Constructs.

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The Essential Practitioners Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology

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This is a concise paperback version of the authoritative International Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology, focusing on the practical elements of that volume. Ideal for the individual practitioner, this selection of chapters covers the basic theory of personal constructs; the many skills and tools used by personal construct psychologists; its general application to psychotherapy and counselling; as well as many specific applications such as cross-cultural understanding, post-traumatic stress, children, teacher education, organizational change, nursing and family therapy.

This is an indispensable guide to theory and skills for those wishing to use the personal construct psychology approach in their practice. It will appeal to a wide range of professionals such as psychologists, teachers, psychiatrists, nurses, system engineers and managers.

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The Psychology of Personal Constructs - 2 Volume set

George Kelly

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Unavailable for many years, this is a reissue of George Kelly's classic work. It is the bible of personal construct theory as written by its founder. In the field of personal construct psychology, Kelly's position is comparable to the standing of Freud and Jung in their respective fields of psychoanalysis and analytical psychology.

The first volume, Theory and Personality, presents the theory of personal construct psychology, and the second volume, Clinical Diagnosis and Psychotherapy, shows the implications for clinical practice. This classic will prove to be invaluable to advanced students of general, clinical, educational, and occupational psychology.

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Advances in Personal Construct Psychology: New Directions and Perspectives

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This volume offers an authoritative review of leading scholarship in personal construct theory and related approaches, giving fresh analyses of problems such as the construction of selfhood, processes of meaning-making in substance abuse and attention deficit disorder, and the dynamics of "insight." Methodologically oriented readers will find critical reappraisals of repertory grid measures, as well as new analytic strategies for textual analysis.

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Personal Construct Psychology in Clinical Practice: Theory, Research and Application

David A. Winter

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This book provides the first comprehensive account of the clinical applications of personal construct theory. Clinicians who wish to employ methods derived from the theory will find guidelines set out, and a thorough examination of the similarities and contrasts between personal construct theory and other major approaches to psychological disorders and their treatments presented. Personal Construct Psychology in Clinical Practice will serve as a major professional resource for those already familiar with PCP and for those wishing to know more.

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Personal Construct Theory in Educational Psychology: A Practitioner's View

Tom Ravenette

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This book is a selection of papers by the author, a professional psychologist who operated a school psychological service. They represent the development over some forty years of a psychological practice based on the then relatively unknown Personal Construct Theory of George Kelly. Tom Ravenette has adjusted and extended this theory to make it fully useful in the authors own context.

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George Kelly (Key Figures in Counselling and Psychotherapy series)

Fay Fransella

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George Kelly's personal construct theory, first published in 1955, is as radical today as it was then. Describing how each one of us goes about our daily life trying to make sense of the events around us, it maintains that we are in charge of what we do in the world, that we do not merely react to events.

This book reveals that George Kelly was a man of enormous intellect, of many talents and of great complexity. Fay Fransella outlines how his views have influenced the theory and practice of psychotherapy, and illustrates how his training in physics and mathematics influenced his theory and led to the development of one of his methods of measurement - the repertory grid.

The book also describes Kelly's philosophy of constructive alternativism, which suggests that we have created and can therefore recreate ourselves, and that what is true for the individual, rather than some external truth, is what matters. This philosophy can be seen as a precursor of the current emphasis on constructivism. Criticisms of Kelly's work and examples of work carried out within this framework since his death are also featured.

George Kelly argued that the validity of any theory can be assessed in terms of its usefulness. The vast amount of work stemming from his theory and methods of practice indicate just how useful it is proving to be.

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International Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology

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This first International Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) illustrates by its breadth and scope the huge influence the work of George Kelly has had, since its inception in 1955, on psychology and related disciplines. Including some previously unpublished material by Kelly and Bannister, alongside classic texts, the handbook is largely devoted to the practical applications of Kelly’s work today.

Areas in which PCP is now being used include expert systems, forensic psychology, psychotherapy and counselling, politics, post-traumatic stress, education, developmental and family psychology, organizational psychology, cross-cultural understanding, nursing, policing, artificial intelligence and sport. As far as possible, each chapter aims to give the reader an idea or method that they can try out for themselves in their own work or personal context.

Even today some of Kelly’s ideas are novel. Although all-embracing, this handbook cannot be comprehensive as new applications and extensions are being developed continually. It will prove an invaluable reference to practitioners and scholars from a wide range of disciplines, wherever human understanding is relevant.

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Philosophical Dimensions of Personal Construct Psychology (Routledge Progress in Psychology)

Bill Warren

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This book traces the philosophical history of Personal Construct Psychology through the broad and complex tradition of phenomenology and thinkers such as Spinoza, Hegel and Heidegger.

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