Experimenting with Personal Construct Psychology

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.

About the Author

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.