George Kelly: The Psychology of Personal Constructs

ISBN-13: 9780230008410 / Angielski / Miękka / 2008 / 160 str.

Butt, Trevor

Opis

Kelly's pragmatic approach to psychology arose from his clinical practice and has been a strong formative influence on clinical psychology and personality theory. Taking us through the development of Kelly's work and setting it in its historical context, this is a fascinating account of one of the foremost personality theories of the 20th century.

Spis treści

Preface.- Issues in Personality.- A Pragmatic Approach.- Personal Construction and Meaning.- A New Humanism.- The Problem of Choice.- Psychological Change and Reconstruction.- The Unconscious and Human Destructiveness.- A Psychology of Understanding.- Further Reading .- Index.

O autorze

TREVOR BUTT is Reader in Psychology at the University of Huddersfield, UK. He trained as a clinical psychologist and is a past Chair of the British Psychological Society's Psychotherapy Section. He is the co-editor of Personal Construct Theory and Practice and the author of Understanding People (Palgrave 2004) and, with Vivien Burr, Invitation to Personal Construct Psychology (Whurr 2004).