Invitation to Personal Construct Psychology
Publisher: Whurr Pub Ltd
Published: April 1992
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 150
ISBN-13: 9781870332484
Copyright date: 1992
Subjects: The self, ego, identity, personality; Personal Construct Theory; Psychology
Description: This highly accessible book is concerned with the application of psychology to the dilemmas, problems and worries commonly experienced in everyday life. In particular, it focuses on George Kelly's theory of Personal Construct Psychology, illustrating his ideas in contexts which will be familiar to the reader.
Table of contents: title: Preface; label: Chapter 1
pagenum: 1
title: Introduction; label: Part I
pagenum: 11
title: Constructive Alternativism; label: Chapter 2
pagenum: 13
title: Is That a Fact?; label: Chapter 3
pagenum: 19
title: Are You Friends or Lovers?; label: Chapter 4
pagenum: 25
title: Am I a Homosexual?; label: Chapter 5
pagenum: 31
title: Are You Ruled by Your Head or Your Heart?; label: Part II
pagenum: 39
title: The Nature of Personality; label: Chapter 6
pagenum: 41
title: Can You Change Your Personality?; label: Chapter 7
pagenum: 47
title: Do Opposites Attract?; label: Chapter 8
pagenum: 51
title: What am I Really Like?; label: Chapter 9
pagenum: 56
title: What Made Me the Way I Am?; label: Chapter 10
pagenum: 64
title: Why Have You Changed?; label: Part III
pagenum: 69
title: Reconstruing Illness; label: Chapter 11
pagenum: 71
title: Am I a Neurotic?; label: Chapter 12
pagenum: 78
title: Why Worry?; label: Chapter 13
pagenum: 83
title: Am I Imagining this Pain?; label: Chapter 14
pagenum: 88
title: Am I an Addict?; label: Part IV
pagenum: 97
title: Reconstruing Change; label: Chapter 15
pagenum: 99
title: Do I Really Want to Give up Drinking?; label: Chapter 16
pagenum: 105
title: Can You Really Hypnotise People?; label: Chapter 17
pagenum: 111
title: Why Don't They Ever Learn?; label: Part V
pagenum: 117
title: Measurement and Change; label: Chapter 18
pagenum: 119
title: How Can We Measure Constructs?; label: Chapter 19
pagenum: 127
title: How Can I Change?; title: Further Reading and References; title: Index