Invitation to Personal Construct Psychology

TREVOR BUTT is Reader in Psychology at the University of Huddersfield, where he teaches a variety of courses including personality and social psychology and personal construct psychology. Vivien Burr is a Principal Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Huddersfield.

• Introduction. Part 1. - Constructive Alternativism.Is That a Fact?Are you Friends or Lovers?Am I Gay?Are you Ruled by you Head or Your Heart?Part 2.- The Nature of The Personality.Can you Change Your Personality?Do Opposites attract?What am I Really Like?What Made me The way I am?Why Have you changed?Part 3. - Reconstructing Illness.Am I a Neurotic?Why Worry?Am I imagining This Pain?Am I an Addict?Am I Traumatised?Part 4. - Reconstructing change.Do I Really Want to Give up Drinking?Can you Really Hypnotise People?Why Don't They Ever Learn?Part 5. - Measurement and Change.How can we Measure constructs?How can I Change?Further Reading and References.Index.

“This book is easily readable and comprehensive ….Overall this book would be a good starting point to gain basic understanding of PCP.” (International Journal of Psychotherapy, Vol.9 No.1 2005)