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- W2559633262 abstract "It was in the final year of my undergraduate degree, in 1964, that I was introduced to the subversive ideas of George Kelly. This was the era of the Beatles and the Cuban missile crisis that we can now see, with the benefit of hindsight, as the flowering of optimistic challenges to the old order that had been cleared away by the Second World War. In my undergraduate days support for Nuclear Disarmament went hand in hand with the view that laboratory based studies of people, particularly of the limited sample, of about 8% of the population, who were undergraduate students at the time, was totally artificial. There was a stream of thought, to which I still subscribe, that psychologists needed to get out into the streets and see how people actually made sense of their lives, when not asked to press buttons in response to flashing lights. Part of this perspective was given impetus when I was introduced to the two Biblical-like volumes of Kelly’s magnum opus. Kelly’s elementary, but profound, claim that we needed to understand an individual’s ways of conceptualising the world in his/her own constructs, was a wonderful antidote to lingering Skinnerian behaviourism that was the orthodoxy in those days. The methodology he developed that captured a visual image of the structure of those constructs was one of the most exciting discoveries I made in my psychological training. I had already been exposed to factor analysis and to Osgood’s ‘semantic differential’, but the application of the notion of a construct space to the mental world of an individual has had a profound influence on all my thinking and been of immeasurable value to many of the applications of psychology in which I have been involved. The excitement of PCP was given further charge by intermittent contact with George Kelly’s representative on earth, Don Bannister. His highly subversive campaign against the traditions of British psychology and, as he put it, its ‘hardening of the categories’ by limiting what was regarded as acceptable psychology is, sadly, even more pertinent today as the oligarchy that manages the Research Assessment Exercise is still defining what is good or bad psychology in very narrow terms. The PCP viewpoint enables us to understand how locked in their own construct systems so many senior psychologists are, but our acceptance that they have a distinct world view does not mean that we need to accept their viewpoint. The value of the central notion of a ‘construct system’ has even spread out to my interest in musical composition. It helps me to understand that I, or any other composer, have a framework of constructs that are unravelled and given shape during the composing process. The interaction with the musical score helps to polish and shape those constructs, which will often be non-verbal." @default.
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- W2559633262 title "Doing psychology that counts: George Kelly's influence" @default.
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