Personal Construct Psychology: New Ideas

Cover\r......Page 1
Half-title\r......Page 2
Title\r......Page 4
Copyright\r......Page 5
Contents\r......Page 6
About the editors\r......Page 10
List of contributors\r......Page 12
Preface\r......Page 14
Acknowledgements\r......Page 18
I. Theory and history\r......Page 20
1. Applying personal construct model to work with people\r......Page 22
2. Personal construct therapy and its history in pragmatism\r......Page 36
3. Reflections on the \"artistic mentality\" and personal consturct psychology\r......Page 46
4. Personal construct psychology through a poststructural lens\r......Page 54
5. The joint spatial representation of constructs and elements\r......Page 66
6. The \"inquiring man\" in the laboratory\r......Page 80
7. Small steps against the tyranny of distance in isolated communities\r......Page 90
II. Assessment and understanding\r......Page 100
8. Therapeutic artistry: evoking experiential and relational truths\r......Page 102
9. Diversity and multiculturalism in psychotherapy: a personal construct perspective\r......Page 118
10. Making sense of dementia\r......Page 128
11. Psychotherapists\' theoretical orientations as elaborative choices\r......Page 150
12. A personal construct theory view of professional identity\r......Page 170
III. Problems of living\r......Page 180
13. Trust and dependency in younger and older people\r......Page 182
14. THC and PCP: factors maintaining cannabis use in people with and without psychosis\r......Page 196
15. Counselling after sexual assault: a personal construct model of the impact of counsellors\' responses to client disclosure\r......Page 214
16. Role relationships and the restoration of coherence in stories of women diagnosed with breast cancer\r......Page 224
17. An hygienic process? Researcher and participants construing each other\'s worlds\r......Page 234
IV. Evidence-based interventions\r......Page 246
18. Menopause: the start of change\r......Page 248
19. When the unreal becomes real: an evaluation of personal construct group psychotherapy with survivors and breast cancer\r......Page 260
20. Personal construct group work with troubled adolescents\r......Page 272
V. Other interventions, clinical and educational\r......Page 290
21. Tapping into pre-service teachers\' perceptions of successful language teachers: a repertory grid approach\r......Page 292
22. Movement in personal change: the practice of dance therapy\r......Page 314
23. The posture of anticipation: Kelly and Alexander\r......Page 322
24. The art of writing: embodiment and pre-verbal construing\r......Page 336
Index\r......Page 342