The Essential Practitioner's Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology

International Advisory Panel.

List of Contributors.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

Section I: What Personal Construct Psychology Is All About.

Chapter 1: George Alexander Kelly: The Man and his Theory (Fay Fransella and Robert A. Neimeyer).

Chapter 2: The Logic of Passion (Don Bannister).

Chapter 3: The Power of a Good Theory (Sean Brophy, Fay Fransella and Nick Reed).

Section II: What Are Some of PCP’s Techniques?

Chapter 4: Some Skills and Tools for Personal Construct Users (Fay Fransella).

Chapter 5: A Range of Elicitation Methods to Suit Client and Purpose (Pam Denicolo).

Chapter 6: The Repertory Grid Technique (Richard C. Bell).

Chapter 7: Making Sense of Dependency (Beverly M. Walker).

Chapter 8: Expertise and Expert Systems: Emulating Psychological Processes (Mildred L.G. Shaw and Brian R. Gaines).

Chapter 9: From Theory to Research to Change (Fay Fransella).

Section III: How Can PCP Help Us to Understand People or Help Them to Change?

Part 1: Working with the Individual or Individuals in Small Groups.

Chapter 10: Is Treatment a Good Idea? (George A. Kelly).

Chapter 11: An Audacious Adventure: Personal Construct Counselling and Psychotherapy (Franz R. Epting, Marco Gemignani and Malcolm C. Cross).

Chapter 12: The Evidence Base for Personal Construct Psychotherapy (David Winter).

Chapter 13: Constructive Intervention with Children when Presented as Problems (Tom Ravenette).

Chapter 14: How Can We Understand One Another if We Don’t Speak the Same Language? (Devi Jankowicz).

Chapter 15: Working with Anger (Peter Cummins).

Chapter 16: An Approach to Post-Traumatic Stress (Kenneth W. Sewell).

Chapter 17.1: Nursing (Julie M. Ellis, Jacqui Costigan and Julie Watkinson).

Chapter 17.2: Family Therapy (Harry Procter).

Chapter 17.3: The Metropolitan Police, London: A Personal Account (John Porter).

Chapter 17.4 :A Sporting Use of Personal Construct Psychology (David Savage).

Chapter 17.5: Artificial Intelligence (Jack Adams-Webber).

Part 2: Working with Large Groups of People.

Chapter 18: Construing Teaching and Teacher Education Worldwide (Maureen Pope).

Chapter 19: Making Sense of the ‘Group Mind’ (Adrian Robertson).

Chapter 20: Charting Organizational Change (Nelarine Cornelius).

Chapter 21: Clarifying Corporate Values: A Case Study (Sean Brophy).

Section IV: Where Might Personal Construct Psychology Be Going Now?

Chapter 22: Personal Construct Psychotherapy and the Constructivist Horizon (Robert A. Neimeyer and Scott A. Baldwin).

Chapter 23: New Avenues to Explore and Questions to Ask (Fay Fransella).

Appendix 1: Theoretical Definitions.

Appendix 2: Some Basic Books on Personal Construct Psychology.

Appendix 3: Internet Resources for Personal Construct Psychology (Brian R. Gaines).

References.

Index.