International Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology

476 Pages·2005·2.65 MB·English

International Handbook of Personal
Construct Psychology
International Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology. Edited by Fay Fransella
Copyright  2003 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. ISBN: 0-470-84727-1
International Handbook of
Personal Construct Psychology
Edited by
Fay Fransella
Centre for Personal Construct Psychology
and University of Hertfordshire, UK
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Contents
About the Editor ix
International Advisory Panel xi
List of Contributors xiii
Introduction xvii
Acknowledgements xxi
Section I: The Psychology of Personal Constructs and its Philosophy
Chapter 1 A Brief Introduction to Personal Construct Theory 3
George A. Kelly
Chapter 2 George Alexander Kelly: The Man and his Theory 21
Fay Fransella and Robert A. Neimeyer
Chapter 3 Kelly Versus Clockwork Psychology 33
Don Bannister
Chapter 4 Kelly’s Philosophy of Constructive Alternativism 41
Gabriele Chiari and Maria Laura Nuzzo
Chapter 5 Research in Personal Construct Psychology 51
Jack Adams-Webber
Section II: Beliefs, Feelings and Awareness
Chapter 6 The Logic of Passion 61
Don Bannister
Chapter 7 Belief, Attachment and Awareness 75
Spencer A. McWilliams
Chapter 8 Working with Anger 83
Peter Cummins
Section III: From Theory to Practice
Chapter 9 The Repertory Grid Technique 95
Richard C. Bell
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Chapter 10 Some Skills and Tools for Personal Construct Practitioners 105
Fay Fransella
Chapter 11 Elicitation Methods to Fit Different Purposes 123
Pam Denicolo
Chapter 12 Expert Systems 133
Mildred L.G. Shaw and Brian R. Gaines
Section IV: Individuals in Relation to Society
Chapter 13 Social Relations in the Modern World 143
Devorah Kalekin-Fishman
Chapter 14 Cross-Cultural Construing 153
Jörn W. Scheer
Chapter 15 Forensic Personal Construct Psychology: Assessing and
Treating Offenders 163
James Horley
Chapter 16 Making Sense of Dependency 171
Beverly M. Walker
Chapter 17 Personal Construct Theory and Politics and the Politics of
Personal Construct Theory 181
Don Bannister
Chapter 18 Moving Personal Construct Psychology to Politics:
Understanding the Voices with which we Disagree 191
Dusan Stojnov
Section V: Personal Change and Reconstruction
Part 1: A Theoretical Understanding
Chapter 19 Psychological Disorder as Imbalance 201
David Winter
Chapter 20 From Theory to Research to Change 211
Fay Fransella
Chapter 21 An Approach to Post-Traumatic Stress 223
Kenneth W. Sewell
Part 2: The Process of Change
Chapter 22 Is Treatment a Good Idea? 233
George A. Kelly
Chapter 23 An Audacious Adventure: Personal Construct Counselling
and Psychotherapy 237
Franz R. Epting, Marco Gemignani and Malcolm C. Cross
CONTENTS vii
Chapter 24 Personal Construct Psychotherapy and the
Constructivist Horizon 247
Robert A. Neimeyer and Scott A. Baldwin
Chapter 25 Experiential Personal Construct Psychotherapy 257
Larry Leitner and Jill Thomas
Chapter 26 The Evidence Base for Personal Construct
Psychotherapy 265
David Winter
Section VI: Development and Education
Part 1: Development
Chapter 27 Children’s Development of Personal Constructs 275
James C. Mancuso
Chapter 28 Constructive Intervention when Children are Presented
as Problems 283
Tom Ravenette
Part 2: Education
Chapter 29 Teacher–Student Relations at University Level 295
George A. Kelly
Chapter 30 Construing Teaching and Teacher Education Worldwide 303
Maureen Pope
Chapter 31 A Psychology for Teachers 311
Phillida Salmon
Chapter 32 Learning and Diagnosis of Learning Results 319
Martin Fromm
Section VII: Understanding Organizations
Chapter 33 The Power of a Good Theory 329
Sean Brophy, Fay Fransella and Nick Reed
Chapter 34 Making Sense of the ‘Group Mind’ 339
Adrian Robertson
Chapter 35 The Struggles of Organizational Transitions 349
Nelarine Cornelius
Chapter 36 How can we Understand One Another if we don’t Speak
the same Language? 359
Devi Jankowicz
Chapter 37 Clarifying Corporate Values: A Case Study 367
Sean Brophy
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Section VIII: Philosophical and Religious Influences on the Thinking of
George Kelly
Chapter 38 The Phenomenological Context of Personal
Construct Psychology 379
Trevor Butt
Chapter 39 Pragmatism and Religion: Dewey’s Twin Influences? 387
Bill Warren
Section IX: Living with Personal Construct Psychology: Personal
Accounts
Chapter 40 Personal Construct Psychology and Me 397
Dorothy Rowe
Chapter 41 A Psychology of Questions 405
Miller Mair
Chapter 42 Kelly’s Influence on Research and Career 415
Rue L. Cromwell
Section X: Reaching Out
Chapter 43.1 Nursing 427
Jacqui Costigan, Julie M. Ellis and Julie Watkinson
Chapter 43.2 Family Therapy 431
Harry Procter
Chapter 43.3 The Metropolitan Police, London: A Personal Account 435
John Porter
Chapter 43.4 A Sporting Use of Personal Construct Psychology 439
David Savage
Chapter 43.5 Artificial Intelligence 443
Jack Adams-Webber
Chapter 44 New Avenues to Explore and Questions to Ask 447
Fay Fransella
Appendix 1 Theoretical Definitions 455
Appendix 2 Some Basic Books on Personal Construct Psychology 458
Appendix 3 Computer Programs and Websites 461
References 463
Index 491
About the Editor
Fay Fransella is Founder and Director of the Centre for Personal Construct Psy-
chology, Emeritus Reader in Clinical Psychology, University of London and Visit-
ing Professor in Personal Construct Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire,
UK. She has written eleven books, eight of them specifically relating to personal
construct psychology and published over one hundred and fifty journal papers and
chapters.
She trained and worked as an Occupational Therapist for ten years before taking
a degree in psychology and a postgraduate diploma in clinical psychology in 1962.
It was during her first job as a lecturer at the Institute of Psychiatry, London
that she was introduced to George Kelly’s personal construct psychology. It was a
revolutionary alternative to the dominant behaviourism of the time. She found the
view that we are all free agents responsible for what we make of the events which
continually confront us particularly liberating. Since that time she has carried out
research, mainly into problems of stuttering and weight problems, together with
teaching and writing within the framework of Kelly’s ideas.
International Advisory Panel
Dr Sean Brophy, Rainsford, 59 Beaumont Road, Dublin 9, Ireland. E-mail: