Collected Papers of the Pioneer of Constructivist Psychology

David A. Winter is Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire and former Program Director of its Doctorate in Clinical Psychology. With extensive experience in the UK National Health Service, including as a Head of Clinical Psychology Services, he has also served as a consultant for the World Health Organization and in mental health settings and training courses worldwide. Winter has authored over 200 publications, including Personal Construct Psychology in Clinical Practice and (with co-authors) Personal and Relational Construct Psychotherapy and Trauma, Survival and Resilience in War Zones. He is President of the George Kelly Society, an Associate Editor of the Journal of Constructivist Psychology, and Research Editor of the European Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling. Nick Reed is Director of the Centre for Personal Construct Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire. An expert in personal construct psychology, he has applied its theory and methods across various fields, including organizational development, education, and healthcare. Reed has published extensively, including co-editing, and contributions to, The Wiley Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology and co-editing Towards a Radical Redefinition of Psychology. A former practicing solicitor, Reed has also explored the application of personal construct psychology in the contexts of law, sustainability, and education.

• Foreword xiiPreface xiiiSection I Autobiography 11 Autobiographical Sketch 32 An Epistle to the Western Hemisphere 63 The Autobiography of a Theory 84 Confusion and the Clock 17Section II Theory and Philosophy 295 Essay on the Doctrine of Mental Energy 316 A Brief Introduction to Personal Construct Theory 377 The Psychology of Personal Constructs 518 Theoretical Behavior 579 Alternatives 6310 A Theoretical Approach to Psychological Movement 7111 Hostility 7512 Man’s Construction of His Alternatives 8113 Prediction and Control 9314 How to be Comfortable with Threat 9515 Feelings For and Feelings Of: (The Ontology of Feelings) 9816 Values, Knowledge and Social Control 10017 Personal Construct Theory as a Line of Inference 10418 The Psychology of the Unknown 11019 Discussion: Aldous, The Personable Computer 11920 The Language of Hypothesis: Man’s Psychological Instrument 12221 The Threat of Aggression 12922 Epilogue: Don Juan 13323 Ontological Acceleration 14124 Behavior is a Question 15725 Behavior is an Experiment 16426 Onta 172Section III Research, Measurement, and Experimental Psychology 17527 Some Common Factors in Reading and Speech Disabilities 17728 Some Observations on the Relation of Cerebral Dominance to the Perception of Symbols 19029 Some Observations on the Relation of the Principle of Physiological Polarity and Symmetry and the Doctrine of Cerebral Dominance to the Perception of Symbols 19130 The Assumption of an Originally Homogeneous Universe and some of its Statistical Implications 19631 A Projective Method of Personality Investigation 20032 Clinical Validity and Conceptual Consistency 20133 Instructions: Role Construct Repertory Test (Rep Test) and Situational Resources Test (Res Test) 20734 The Theory and Technique of Assessment 21135 The Abstraction of Human Processes 22636 A Mathematical Approach to Psychology 23037 Nonparametric Factor Analysis of Personality Theories 23938 The Strategy of Psychological Research 25539 Humanistic Methodology in Psychological Research 263Section IV Interpersonal and International Relations 26940 The Sincere Motive 27141 Forgotten Issues 27342 Some Preliminary Thoughts on What One Should Seek First 27543 In Whom Confide: On Whom Depend for What? 27844 Europe’s Matrix of Decision 28645 Nicholas Square 30146 Man, Crises and Commitments: A Stated Purpose and a Plan for an Institute for Advanced Psychological Studies 302Section V Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy 30547 Differential Diagnosis in the Psychological Clinic 30748 The Handbook of Clinic Practice 30849 Stories from the Psychological Clinic 37750 The Psychological Clinic’s Use of Practical Rather than Ideal Recommendations 37951 The Practical Effectiveness of Certain General Types of Recommendations Made by a Psychological Clinic 38052 A Method of Diagnosing Personality in the Psychological Clinic 38453 Clinic Ranks High in Speech Department: Outline of the Activities of Psychological Clinic Here 39254 The Person as a Laboratory Subject, as a Statistical Case, and as a Clinical Client 39455 Some Practical Considerations in the Formulation of Clinical Recommendations 39556 A Comprehensive Plan for Case Summaries 39657 A Further Validation of Role Therapy 39758 Morale for Tomorrow’s Generation 39859 Seminar on Psychotherapy 40060 Problems of Mental Health 40861 The Problem of Clinical Psychology 41162 Psychological Approaches to the Management of Patients 42163 Contribution to Symposium on Contributions of Learning Theory to Psychopathology 42764 Where Do Little Hypotheses Come from? 43065 A Student’s Outline of Graduate Training in Clinical Psychology in the Ohio State University: A Guide to Help the Prospective Graduate Student Formulate His Career Objectives and Plan His Training 43266 Personal Construct Theory and the Psychotherapeutic Interview 45767 Psychology 862: Psychopathology Course Outline 47668 Syllabus: Psychology 865L: Psychotherapy Revised Version 52769 The Function of Interpretation in Psychotherapy 55670 Is Treatment a Good Idea? 58071 Suicide: The Personal Construct Point of View 58272 Innovations in Psychotherapy 59573 A Doctoral Program in Clinical Psychology 59774 Sin and Psychotherapy 61075 Psychotherapy and the Nature of Man 62176 A Psychology of the Optimal Man 62577 The Psychotherapeutic Relationship 63578 The Role of Classification in Personality Theory 63979 Needs and Uses of Space in Clinical Psychology 64580 Space Needs for Clinical Psychology: 1965–1975 64981 Progress Report: Ohio State University’s Graduate Program in Clinical Psychology 65382 Experimental Dependency 65983 Clinical Psychology 66284 Fixed Role Therapy 664Section VI Education 67785 A Plan for Socializing Friends University with respect to Student Participation in School Control 67986 Social Inheritance 69487 The Place of the Psychologist in the Small School System 70188 Observations Made in a Search for Dynamic and Accessible Factors in Intellectual Development 70289 A Preliminary Inquiry Leading to: A Plan for a Comprehensive Experimental Study of the Uses of Television in Teacher Education 70690 Report on Classroom Television 73091 Television and the Teacher 75492 Teacher- Student Relations at the University Level 75793 Nursery Rhymes for Older Tots 761Section VII Professional Issues 76394 Standardization of Techniques in Clinical Psychology 76595 Foreword 76896 Practices in Interdisciplinary Collaboration 76997 Single Level Versus Legislation for Different Levels of Psychological Training and Experience 77698 The Organization of an Agency 77899 The Place of Psychology in Southern Illinois University: A Report of a Study Made at the Request of President Delyte W. Morris 782100 Doctoral Training in Psychology in Southern Illinois University 795101 Training for Professional Function in Clinical Psychology: 2. Principles of Training in Clinical Psychology 800102 Requirements of Training and Competence for Psychological Participation in Rehabilitation 804103 Knowledge: Discovery or Invention? 806104 Next Steps for the Profession of Psychology 807105 I Itch Too 810106 Interdisciplinary Collaboration 811107 Emerging Concepts that Affect Interprofessional Alignments in Psychology: (Discussion of the Findings of the Psychology Commission) 813108 Issues: Hidden or Mislaid 817109 Problems of Clinical Psychology in an Industrial Setting 819110 Post- Doctoral Training 821111 Comments on Special Areas Review Committee 822112 Training for Professional Obsolescence 824113 Issues in the Professional Training of Clinical Psychologists 827114 Epilogue: Moments I Remember 832Section VIII Book Reviews 835115 The Clinical Psychologist as Navigator 837116 Cry of an Exasperated Crusader 839117 Kaplan, Louis. Mental Health and Human Relations in Education. New York: Harper and Brothers, 1959. xiv + 476 pp. 840118 Muddles, Myths and Medicine 841119 Look Who’s Talking 843120 Clinical Psychology Afoot and Abroad 845Section IX Miscellaneous 847121 How I Spent My Seventyfifth Birthday 849122 Psychology versus Fate 850123 Understandable Psychology 851124 Aggravating Aphorisms: How to Read a Psychological Dictionary Between the Lines 915125 Inductive Trigonometry 916126 Notes on Perceptual Integration in the Design of Aircraft Instrument Panels 932127 Design of Critical Difference Computer 958Appendix 971Index 972