Originally published in 1988, Experimenting with Personal Construct Psychology provided an up-to-date account of the state of personal construct psychology revealing the diversity of its application and its exciting developments at the time. It had been thirty years since George Kelly published his The Psychology of Personal Constructs and his ideas and methodology had become widely known internationally and acknowledged as significant contributions to the theory and practice of psychology as the science of human experience and behaviour. Kelly’s ideas had been elaborated, the range of convenience of the theory had been greatly extended, and this was the focus for the congress on which this volume is based. It is divided into eight parts: Theory, Education, Children, Clinical, Methodology, Industrial Settings, Attitudes and Beliefs and The Arts. The contributors reflect the international reach of the theory.
This book is a re-issue originally published in 1988. The language used and views portrayed are a reflection of its era and no offence is meant by the Publishers to any reader by this re-publication.
First published in 1988, this title provided an up-to-date account of the state of personal construct psychology revealing the diversity of its application and its exciting developments at the time. It is divided into eight parts: Theory, Education, Children, Clinical, Methodology, Industrial Settings, Attitudes and Beliefs and The Arts.
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Review for the original edition:
The applications of PCT in education and to child development, and in industry and the arts, which are represented here, are of considerable interest and of potential relevance for any clinical psychiatry and psychology. The whole area of interactive grid elicitation and analysis shows as-yet unexplored promise. J. P. Watson, Professor of Psychiatry, UMDS, Guys Hospital, London
Contributors. Preface. Opening Address: The Range of Convenience of
Personal Construct Psychology An Outsiders View Marie Jahoda A: Theory
1.
On Becoming a Personal Anarchist Spencer A. McWilliams
2. PCT: Still Radical
Thirty Years On? Fay Fransella
3. Autopoiesis and Alternativism in
Psychotherapy: Fluctuations and Reconstructions Vincent Kenny
4. Personal
Meaning and Memory: Kelly and Bartlett Peggy Dalton
5. Kelly and Bateson:
Antithesis or Synthesis? Robert Foley
6. Kelly and Popper: A Constructivist
View of Knowledge Francesco Mancini and Antonio Semerari
7. Kellys Eye: An
Alternative View of PCT Mantz Yorke
8. Constructing Environments that Enable
Self-Organised Learning: The Principles of Intelligent Support Laurie F.
Thomas and E. Sheila Harri-Augstein B: Education
1. Software for Use in
Self-Organised Learning Environments: The Practice of Intelligent Support E.
Sheila Harri-Augstein and Laurie F. Thomas
2. Initiating the Management of
Learning in a Junior School Graham Crosby and Laurie F. Thomas
3. A
Qualitative Approach to the Study of Students Learning Marie Luisa Figueroa
and E. Sheila Harri-Augstein
4. Report on Learning-to-Learn Techniques Based
on PCP Rosamund Nutting
5. Turning-on Teachers Own Constructs C. T. Patrick
Diamond
6. Personal and Impersonal Constructs of Student Teachers Sylvia
Chard C: Children
1. PCP and Children Rosemarie Hayhow, Richard Lansdown,
Jenny Maddick and Tom Ravenette
2. Representing the Parent-Role Construing
Systems of Expert Parents Michael F. Mascolo and James C. Mancuso
3.
Self-Characterisation: Dimensions of Meaning Sharon R. Jackson
4. A Child of
Four Could Tell You: A Study of Identity in the Nursery School Using
Situations Grids Anne Edwards
5. Choice and Meaning in Childhood Illness
Auriol Drew D: Clinical
1. Construction of Psychological Disorders as
Invalidation of Self-Knowledge G. G. Gardner, F. Mancini and A. Semerari
2.
PCT Interpretation of Sexual Involvement with Children Li Chin-Keung
3.
Understanding the Disoriented Senior as a Personal Scientist Elizabeth Ann
Hill
4. Personal Identity in Disturbed Marital Relationships Greg Neimeyer
and Alison Gold Hall
5. Contextual Shifts in Interpersonal Constructions L.
M. Leitner
6. Phobias: A Journey Beyond Neurosis Gavin Dunnett
7. Building
Change in Patients with Agoraphobic Symptoms Roberto Lorenzini and Sandra
Sassaroli
8. Constructions in Social Skills Training David Winter E:
Methodology
1. Construal of Events: Personal Constructs versus Personal
Projects James Horley
2. A PCP Analysis of Data Collection in the Social
Sciences Linda L. Viney
3. Three-Dimensional Representations of Grid-Type
Data John Kirkland, Robert Lambourne and Stephen Black
4. Information Loss in
Grid Analysis J. W. Cary F: Industrial Settings
1. A Range of Applications of
PCP Within Business and Industry Fay Fransella, Helen Jones and Joyce Watson
2. Regnancy: A Shadow Over Personal Construing Philip J. Boxer
3. A
Comparison of the Personal Constructs of Management in New and Experienced
Managers Cathleen A. Brown and Charles J. Detoy
4. Developing a Learning
Culture in a Bank Maurice Randall and Laurie Thomas
5. A PCP Model of
Decision-Making and Planning Annabel Jackson G: Attitudes and Beliefs
1.
Feminism and PCT Bernadette OSullivan
2. What Might Psychologists Tell
Politicians about Intergroup Conflict? Peter du Preez
3. Religious Belief and
PCT Norman Todd
4. Psychological Investigation of Offending Behaviour Adrian
Needs H: The Arts
1. A PCP View of Novel Writing and Reading Don Bannister
2.
Applying PCP to Constructs Related to Music Miriam Ben-Peretz and Devorah
Kalekin-Fishman
3. Music and Personal Constructs Eric Button
4. A Repertory
Grid Study of Response to Poetry David Miall
5. Fragmentation Peter Stringer.
Index.
Fay Fransella was Emeritus Reader in Clinical Psychology, University of London and Visiting Professor at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. She founded the Centre for Personal Construct Psychology in London in 1981. Among her many publications are Inquiring Man which she co-authored with Don Bannister (Routledge, 1971, reissued 2019), the International Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology of which she was Editor (2000), and A Manual for Repertory Grid Technique (co-authored with Richard Bell and Don Bannister, 2nd edition, 2004). Fay Fransella died in 2011.
Laurie Thomas was the founder Director of the Centre for the Study of Human Learning (CSHL) and Head of the post-graduate division of Human Learning at Brunel University, London. Together with Sheila Harri-Augstein he was the originator of Self-Organised Learning (SOL) and the Learning Conversation Methodology. He was the author of several hundred academic papers and several books.
