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 includingPersonal Construct Psychology in Clinical Practice (1994) andPersonal 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 xi

ForewordRue L. Cromwellxx

PrefaceDavid A. Winter and Nick Reedxxviii

1. What is a Personal Construct? 1Fay Fransella

Part I Personal Construct Psychology and Its Philosophy 9

2. Personal Construct Theory and Philosophy 11Trevor Butt and Bill Warren

3. George Kelly: A Revealing Moment 24Franz R. Epting

4. Personal Construct Psychology in Relation to an Integrative Constructivism 34Jonathan D. Raskin

5. Philosophy and Psychology: The Distinctiveness of the Theory of Personal Constructs 45Bill Warren

6. So Distant, Yet So Close: Kelly, Maturana, and Their Constructivist Theories 57Gabriele Chiari

Part II Methodology 69

7. Methodologies of Assessment in Personal Construct Psychology 71Richard C. Bell

8. Assessment of Hierarchies of Construing 88Peter Caputi

9. Using Linear Mixed Models with Repertory Grid Data 99Mark Heckmann and Richard C. Bell

10. Nonverbal Assessment Methods 113Beverly M. Walker

11. Experience Cycle Methodology: A Qualitative Method to Understand the Process of Revising Personal Constructs 125Lindsay G. Oades and Fiona Patterson

Part III Society and Culture 137

12. Personal Construct Psychology, Society, and Culture: A Review 139Harry Procter

13. Cultures like an extra layer on top isnt it? Sociality and Superordination in Italian and English People 154Viv Burr, Trevor Butt, and Massimo Giliberto

14. Relational Construct Psychology 167Harry Procter

15. The Political Program of Personal Construct Psychology 178Du¨an Stojnov

16. Transcending WarRavaged Biographies 190David A. Winter

Part IV Clinical Applications 201

17. The Continuing Clinical Relevance of Personal Construct Psychology: A Review 203David A. Winter

18. Experiential Personal Construct Psychology and the Integral Universe: Theoretical and Clinical Implications 218Larry M. Leitner and Katherine J. Hayes

19. Dilemma Resolution 230Guillem Feixas

20. A Narrative Hermeneutic Approach to Personal Construct Psychotherapy 241Gabriele Chiari

21. Reconstructing Meaning in Bereavement 254Robert A. Neimeyer

Part V Organizational Applications 265

22. Personal Construct Theory, Research, and Practice in the Field of Business and Management 267Nelarine Cornelius

23. Consulting in Organizations 282Mary Frances

24. Humanizing Healthcare: A Personal Construct Psychology-Based Intervention 293Sean Brophy

25. Organizational Paradoxes: When Opposites Cease To Be Opposites 306Robert P. Wright

26. Personal Construct Coaching 320Jelena Pavloviand Du¨an Stojnov

Part VI Educational Applications 331

27. From Periphery to Core: Personal Construct Psychologys Permeation of Education 333Maureen Pope and Pam Denicolo

28. Learning and Education 352Martin Fromm

29. Creativity with Students 361Vladimir D?inovi

30. Reconstructing Lifelong Learning 371Michael Kompf and Nicola Simmons

31. School is Our Common World: A Constructivist-Phenomenological Study of the Construing of Roma Pupils and Their Teacher 383Barbara Strobachová and Miroslav Filip

Part VII New Horizons 397

32. A Vision of the Future of Personal Construct Psychology 399Peter Cummins

33. Construing Homicide 416David A. Winter

34. Too Much of a Bad Thing: Commonality and the Construction of Sexual Experience 426Carmen DellAversano

35. Personal Construct Psychology and Buddhism 439Spencer A. McWilliams

36. Personal Construct Psychology and the Arts 452Jörn W. Scheer and Viv Burr

37. Personal Construct Psychology and Law 464Nick Reed

38. Personal Construct Psychology and Restorative Justice 476Finn Tschudi

39. Changing Behavior to Being More Environmentally Friendly: A PCP Perspective 487Nick Reed and Nadine Page

40. George Kellys Psychology of Understanding: Questioning Our Understanding, Understanding Our Questioning 499Miller Mair

Appendix Personal Construct Theory: A Summary 518

Index 524