The Wiley Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology

Notes on Contributors xi Foreword Rue L. Cromwell xx Preface David A. Winter and Nick Reed xxviii 1. What Is a Personal Construct? 1 Fay Fransella Part I Personal Construct Psychology and Its Philosophy 9 2. Personal Construct Theory and Philosophy 11 Trevor Butt and Bill Warren 3. George Kelly: A Revealing Moment 24 Franz R. Epting 4. Personal Construct Psychology in Relation to an Integrative Constructivism 34 Jonathan D. Raskin 5. Philosophy and Psychology: The Distinctiveness of the Theory of Personal Constructs 45 Bill Warren 6. So Distant, Yet So Close: Kelly, Maturana, and Their Constructivist Theories 57 Gabriele Chiari Part II Methodology 69 7. Methodologies of Assessment in Personal Construct Psychology 71 Richard C. Bell 8. Assessment of Hierarchies of Construing 88 Peter Caputi 9. Using Linear Mixed Models with Repertory Grid Data 99 Mark Heckmann and Richard C. Bell 10. Nonverbal Assessment Methods 113 Beverly M. Walker 11. Experience Cycle Methodology: A Qualitative Method to Understand the Process of Revising Personal Constructs 125 Lindsay G. Oades and Fiona Patterson Part III Society and Culture 137 12. Personal Construct Psychology, Society, and Culture: A Review 139 Harry Procter 13. "Culture's like an extra layer on top isn't it?" Sociality and Superordination in Italian and English People 154 Viv Burr, Trevor Butt, and Massimo Giliberto 14. Relational Construct Psychology 167 Harry Procter 15. The Political Program of Personal Construct Psychology 178 Dusan Stojnov 16. Transcending War-Ravaged Biographies 190 David A. Winter Part IV Clinical Applications 201 17. The Continuing Clinical Relevance of Personal Construct Psychology: A Review 203 David A. Winter 18. Experiential Personal Construct Psychology and the Integral Universe: Theoretical and Clinical Implications 218 Larry M. Leitner and Katherine J. Hayes 19. Dilemma Resolution 230 Guillem Feixas 20. A Narrative Hermeneutic Approach to Personal Construct Psychotherapy 241 Gabriele Chiari 21. Reconstructing Meaning in Bereavement 254 Robert A. Neimeyer Part V Organizational Applications 265 22. Personal Construct Theory, Research, and Practice in the Field of Business and Management 267 Nelarine Cornelius 23. Consulting in Organizations 282 Mary Frances 24. Humanizing Healthcare: A Personal Construct Psychology-Based Intervention 293 Sean Brophy 25. Organizational Paradoxes: When Opposites Cease To Be Opposites 306 Robert P. Wright 26. Personal Construct Coaching 320 Jelena Pavlovic and Dusan Stojnov Part VI Educational Applications 331 27. From Periphery to Core: Personal Construct Psychology's Permeation of Education 333 Maureen Pope and Pam Denicolo 28. Learning and Education 352 Martin Fromm 29. Creativity with Students 361 Vladimir D?inovic 30. Reconstructing Lifelong Learning 371 Michael Kompf and Nicola Simmons 31. School Is Our Common World: A Constructivist-Phenomenological Study of the Construing of Roma Pupils and Their Teacher 383 Barbara Strobachová and Miroslav Filip Part VII New Horizons 397 32. A Vision of the Future of Personal Construct Psychology 399 Peter Cummins 33. Construing Homicide 416 David A. Winter 34. Too Much of a Bad Thing: Commonality and the Construction of Sexual "Experience" 426 Carmen Dell'Aversano 35. Personal Construct Psychology and Buddhism 439 Spencer A. McWilliams 36. Personal Construct Psychology and the Arts 452 Jörn W. Scheer and Viv Burr 37. Personal Construct Psychology and Law 464 Nick Reed 38. Personal Construct Psychology and Restorative Justice 476 Finn Tschudi 39. Changing Behavior to Being More Environmentally Friendly: A PCP Perspective 487 Nick Reed and Nadine Page 40. George Kelly's Psychology of Understanding: Questioning Our Understanding, Understanding Our Questioning 499 Miller Mair Appendix Personal Construct Theory: A Summary 518 Index 524