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The Essential Practitioner’s Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology Edited by Fay Fransella Centre for Personal Construct Psychology and University of Hertfordshire, UK JOHN WILEY & SONS, LTD The Essential Practitioner’s Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology The Essential Practitioner’s Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology Edited by Fay Fransella Centre for Personal Construct Psychology and University of Hertfordshire, UK JOHN WILEY & SONS, LTD Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons Ltd, The Atrium, Southern Gate, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 8SQ, England Telephone (+44) 1243 779777 Email (for orders and customer service enquiries): [email protected] Visit our Home Page on www.wiley.com All Rights Reserved. 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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data The essential practitioner’s handbook of personal construct psychology / edited by Fay Fransella. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-470-01323-0 1. Personal construct theory. I. Fransella, Fay. BF698.9.P47E87 2005 150.19¢8—dc22 2004029113 British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library ISBN 0-470-01323-0 (pbk) Typeset in 10/12pt Times by SNP Best-set Typesetter Ltd., Hong Kong Printed and bound in Great Britain by Antony Rowe Ltd, Chippenham, Wiltshire This book is printed on acid-free paper responsibly manufactured from sustainable forestry in which at least two trees are planted for each one used for paper production. Contents About the Editor ix International Advisory Panel xi List of Contributors xiii Preface xv Acknowledgements xvii Section I: What Personal Construct Psychology Is All About Chapter 1 George Alexander Kelly: The Man and his Theory 3 Fay Fransella and Robert A. Neimeyer Chapter 2 The Logic of Passion 15 Don Bannister Chapter 3 The Power of a Good Theory 29 Sean Brophy, Fay Fransella and Nick Reed Section II: What Are Some of PCP’s Techniques? Chapter 4 Some Skills and Tools for Personal Construct Users 41 Fay Fransella Chapter 5 A Range of Elicitation Methods to Suit Client and Purpose 57 Pam Denicolo Chapter 6 The Repertory Grid Technique 67 Richard C. Bell Chapter 7 Making Sense of Dependency 77 Beverly M. Walker Chapter 8 Expertise and Expert Systems: Emulating Psychological Processes 87 Mildred L.G. Shaw and Brian R. Gaines Chapter 9 From Theory to Research to Change 95 Fay Fransella vi CONTENTS Section III: How Can PCP Help Us to Understand People or Help Them to Change? Part 1: Working with the Individual or Individuals in Small Groups Chapter 10 Is Treatment a Good Idea? 109 George A. Kelly Chapter 11 An Audacious Adventure: Personal Construct Counselling and Psychotherapy 113 Franz R. Epting, Marco Gemignani and Malcolm C. Cross Chapter 12 The Evidence Base for Personal Construct Psychotherapy 123 David Winter Chapter 13 Constructive Intervention with Children when Presented as Problems 133 Tom Ravenette Chapter 14 How Can We Understand One Another if We Don’t Speak the Same Language? 145 Devi Jankowicz Chapter 15 Working with Anger 153 Peter Cummins Chapter 16 An Approach to Post-Traumatic Stress 163 Kenneth W. Sewell Chapter 17.1 Nursing 173 Julie M. Ellis, Jacqui Costigan and Julie Watkinson Chapter 17.2 Family Therapy 177 Harry Procter Chapter 17.3 The Metropolitan Police, London: A Personal Account 181 John Porter Chapter 17.4 A Sporting Use of Personal Construct Psychology 185 David Savage Chapter 17.5 Artificial Intelligence 189 Jack Adams-Webber Part 2: Working with Large Groups of People Chapter 18 Construing Teaching and Teacher Education Worldwide 195 Maureen Pope Chapter 19 Making Sense of the ‘Group Mind’ 203 Adrian Robertson Chapter 20 Charting Organizational Change 213 Nelarine Cornelius CONTENTS vii Chapter 21 Clarifying Corporate Values: A Case Study 223 Sean Brophy Section IV: Where Might Personal Construct Psychology Be Going Now? Chapter 22 Personal Construct Psychotherapy and the Constructivist Horizon 235 Robert A. Neimeyer and Scott A. Baldwin Chapter 23 New Avenues to Explore and Questions to Ask 245 Fay Fransella Appendix 1 Theoretical Definitions 253 Appendix 2 Some Basic Books on Personal Construct Psychology 256 Appendix 3 Internet Resources for Personal Construct Psychology 259 Brian R. Gaines References 263 Index 283 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, 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: seanbrophy@eircom. net Dr Trevor Butt, School of Human & Health Sciences, University of Huddersfield, UK. E-mail: [email protected] Dr Nelarine Cornelius, Brunel Business School, Brunel University, UK. E-mail: [email protected] Ms Jacqui Costigan, Late of La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia. Dr Pam Denicolo, School of Pharmacy, Graduate School for the Social Sciences, University of Reading, UK. E-mail: [email protected] Dr Guillem Feixas, Department of Psychology, University of Barcelona, Spain. E-mail: [email protected] Dr Devorah Kalekin-Fishman, Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, Israel. E-mail: [email protected] Professor James Mancuso, Emeritus Professor of Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Albany SUNY, USA. E-mail: [email protected] Associate Professor Dusan Stojnov, Psychology Department, Faculty of Philosophy, University of Belgrade, Serbia and Montenegro. E-mail: [email protected] Professor Linda Viney, Department of Psychology, Wollongong University, Australia. E-mail [email protected] Professor David Winter, Department of Psychology, University of Hertfordshire, and Barnet, Enfield and Haringey Mental Health Trust, UK. E-mail: [email protected] List of Contributors Professor Jack Adams-Webber, Department of Psychology, Brock University, St Catharines, Ontario, Canada L2S 3A1. E-mail: [email protected] Scott A. Baldwin, Department of Psychology, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, USA Don Bannister, Deceased Associate Professor Richard C. Bell, Department of Psychology, University of Melbourne, Victoria 3010, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] Dr Sean Brophy, Rainsford, 59 Beaumont Road, Dublin 9, Ireland. E-mail: [email protected] Dr Nelarine Cornelius, Brunel Business School, Brunel University, Uxbridge Campus, Uxbridge, Middlesex UB8 3PH, UK. E-mail: nelarine. [email protected] Ms Jacqui Costigan, Late of La Trobe University, Victoria, Australia. Dr Malcolm C. Cross, Department of Psychology, City University, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, UK. E-mail: [email protected] Dr Peter Cummins, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Head of Adult Psychological Services, Coventry Healthcare NHS Trust, Gulson Hospital, Gulson Road, Coven- try CV1 2HR, UK. E-mail: [email protected] Dr Pam Denicolo, School of Pharmacy/Graduate School for the Social Sciences, White Knight Campus, University of Reading, Earley, Reading RG6 1HY, UK. E- mail: [email protected] Dr Julie M. Ellis, School of Nursing and Midwifery, La Trobe University, PO Box 199, Bendigo 3552, Australia. E-mail: [email protected] Professor Franz R.