Wiley Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology

David A. Winter is Professor of Clinical Psychology and Programme Director of the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, UK. He has applied personal construct psychology in clinical practice and research for 40 years, with over 150 publications including Personal Construct Psychology in Clinical Practice (1994) and Personal Construct Psychotherapy: Advances in Theory, Practice and Research (Wiley, 2005). Nick Reed is Director of the Centre for Personal Construct Psychology in the Department of Psychology and Sports Science, University of Hertfordshire, UK. He has taught and practiced personal construct psychology for over 15 years and has experience of applying PCP in diverse contexts, including organizational change, environmental consultancy, teacher effectiveness, and the training of junior doctors.

• Notes on Contributors xiForeword Rue L. Cromwell xxPreface David A. Winter and Nick Reed xxviii1. What is a Personal Construct? 1Fay FransellaPart I Personal Construct Psychology and Its Philosophy 92. Personal Construct Theory and Philosophy 11Trevor Butt and Bill Warren3. George Kelly: A Revealing Moment 24Franz R. Epting4. Personal Construct Psychology in Relation to an Integrative Constructivism 34Jonathan D. Raskin5. Philosophy and Psychology: The Distinctiveness of the Theory of Personal Constructs 45Bill Warren6. So Distant, Yet So Close: Kelly, Maturana, and Their Constructivist Theories 57Gabriele ChiariPart II Methodology 697. Methodologies of Assessment in Personal Construct Psychology 71Richard C. Bell8. Assessment of Hierarchies of Construing 88Peter Caputi9. Using Linear Mixed Models with Repertory Grid Data 99Mark Heckmann and Richard C. Bell10. Nonverbal Assessment Methods 113Beverly M. Walker11. Experience Cycle Methodology: A Qualitative Method to Understand the Process of Revising Personal Constructs 125Lindsay G. Oades and Fiona PattersonPart III Society and Culture 13712. Personal Construct Psychology, Society, and Culture: A Review 139Harry Procter13. “Culture’s like an extra layer on top isn’t it?” Sociality and Superordination in Italian and English People 154Viv Burr, Trevor Butt, and Massimo Giliberto14. Relational Construct Psychology 167Harry Procter15. The Political Program of Personal Construct Psychology 178Dušan Stojnov16. Transcending War‐Ravaged Biographies 190David A. WinterPart IV Clinical Applications 20117. The Continuing Clinical Relevance of Personal Construct Psychology: A Review 203David A. Winter18. Experiential Personal Construct Psychology and the Integral Universe: Theoretical and Clinical Implications 218Larry M. Leitner and Katherine J. Hayes19. Dilemma Resolution 230Guillem Feixas20. A Narrative Hermeneutic Approach to Personal Construct Psychotherapy 241Gabriele Chiari21. Reconstructing Meaning in Bereavement 254Robert A. NeimeyerPart V Organizational Applications 26522. Personal Construct Theory, Research, and Practice in the Field of Business and Management 267Nelarine Cornelius23. Consulting in Organizations 282Mary Frances24. Humanizing Healthcare: A Personal Construct Psychology-Based Intervention 293Sean Brophy25. Organizational Paradoxes: When Opposites Cease To Be Opposites 306Robert P. Wright26. Personal Construct Coaching 320Jelena Pavlović and Dušan StojnovPart VI Educational Applications 33127. From Periphery to Core: Personal Construct Psychology’s Permeation of Education 333Maureen Pope and Pam Denicolo28. Learning and Education 352Martin Fromm29. Creativity with Students 361Vladimir Džinović30. Reconstructing Lifelong Learning 371Michael Kompf and Nicola Simmons31. School is Our Common World: A Constructivist-Phenomenological Study of the Construing of Roma Pupils and Their Teacher 383Barbara Strobachová and Miroslav FilipPart VII New Horizons 39732. A Vision of the Future of Personal Construct Psychology 399Peter Cummins33. Construing Homicide 416David A. Winter34. Too Much of a Bad Thing: Commonality and the Construction of Sexual “Experience” 426Carmen Dell’Aversano35. Personal Construct Psychology and Buddhism 439Spencer A. McWilliams36. Personal Construct Psychology and the Arts 452Jörn W. Scheer and Viv Burr37. Personal Construct Psychology and Law 464Nick Reed38. Personal Construct Psychology and Restorative Justice 476Finn Tschudi39. Changing Behavior to Being More Environmentally Friendly: A PCP Perspective 487Nick Reed and Nadine Page40. George Kelly’s Psychology of Understanding: Questioning Our Understanding, Understanding Our Questioning 499Miller MairAppendix Personal Construct Theory: A Summary 518Index 524