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Theory and Technique of the Repertory Grid

Being a review of The Evaluation of Personal Constructs by D. Bannister and J. M. M. Mair

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 January 2018

Patrick Slater
Patrick Slater*
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry {University of London), De Crespigny Park, London S.E.5
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George A. Kelly graduated in engineering with psychology as a subsidiary subject at the time when the boom of the ‘twenties in the United States was collapsing into the depression of the early ‘thirties. He found it impossible to obtain employment as an engineer and went to practise psychology in an impoverished, inaccessible area on the border of the dust-bowl. There he had to do the best he could to diagnose and treat the peculiar psychological problems of his patients by himself without the advice or assistance of any medically qualified psychiatrist or other psychologist within reach for consultation. He found little help in the popular psychologies of the period, behaviourism and psychoanalysis. Through trying many experimental approaches he gradually developed a homespun psychology which he expounded in a two-volume book, The Psychology of Personal Constructs (1955) and elaborated in a very large number of other publications after he entered the academic world.

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Research Article
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 115 , Issue 528 , November 1969 , pp. 1287 - 1296
Copyright
Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1969 

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