The Psychology of Personal Constructs

Volume Two: Clinical Diagnosis and Psychotherapy

George Kelly

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2003
• Print ISBN:
  9780415037983
• eBook ISBN:
  9781134957354
• Topic: Medicine
• Subtopic: Internal Medicine & Diagnosis

First published in 1992. Unavailable for many years this is a reissue of George Kelly's classic work. It is the bible of personal construct psychology written by its founder. The second volume presents the implications for clinical practice.

Index

• academic councillor’s commitment 277–9
• acceptance 22–3, 315, 391, 421
  • loosening produced by 342–3
  • nature of 65–6
  • personal 62
• accessibility, client’s 173, 179–80
• acting out see role playing
• activities, appraisal 124–52
  • elaboration through 304–7
  • spontaneous see spontaneous activity
• adjunctive resources, for client management 184–5
• adjustment, client abandonment of patterns 158
• Adler, A. 9, 151
• age of therapist 61
• aggression 4
  • disorders involving 222
  • in group psychotherapy 430
  • and guilt 224–5
  • and hostility 222–3, 227–8, 230
  • and interpersonal relationships 223–4
  • role relationships 224–5
• aggressiveness 34–5
  • areas 155
  • client’s 384
  • definition 7
  • and elaboration 308
  • and exploration 206, 229, 233
  • and level of symptom formation 256
  • location of client’s 170–1
  • therapist’s 439
• agitated weeping 390
• Albrecht, shock research 245
• Alcoholics Anonymous 15
• Allport, G.W. 69
• alternatives, confrontation 304
  • in construction system 292
  • and controlled elaboration 272–3
  • exploration 273–4
• anal fixation 308
• anorexia 340
• anticipation, anxiety avoiding through 392
  • behaviour theory 3–4
  • child’s, in group activity 132–3
  • client’s framework 396
• anticipation cycles 239
• anxiety 4, 201
  • appraising 237–40
  • areas 155
  • in client management 181
  • client’s approach to 170–1
  • definition 7
  • disorders involving 236–7
  • and experimentation 403–5
  • in hostility 230
  • and impulsivity 239
  • and loosening 206, 208–9, 331, 349–50
  • meaning of term 196
  • reducing techniques 391–4
  • and therapeutic movement 240–1, 377, 386–91
  • therapist’s 445–6
• apostolic succession 11
• appeasement 251
  • in hostility 229, 232–3, 276
• Apple Cart, Shaw 136
• Archimedes 373
• Aristotelianism 154, 396
• assessment, as form of enactment 410
• association, chain 332–4
• ‘associative anamnesis’ 287
• atonement 194, 414
• authority relationships 16–17, 224, 227
• autobiography, client’s 301
• automobile, client’s 97
• ‘auxiliary egos’ 410, 429

• Barry, J.R. 295
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Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Contents
• List of figures and tables
• Preface
• Chapter eleven The role of the psychotherapist
• Chapter twelve The psychotherapeutic approach
• Chapter thirteen The appraisal of experiences
• Chapter fourteen The appraisal of activities
• Chapter fifteen Steps in diagnosis
• Chapter sixteen Disorders of construction
• Chapter seventeen Disorders of transition
• Chapter eighteen Elaborating the complaint
• Chapter nineteen Elaborating the personal system
• Chapter twenty Loosening and tightening
• Chapter twenty-oneProducing psychotherapeutic movement
• Chapter twenty-twoSpecial techniques in psychotherapy
• Index