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The Wiley Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology is the definitive new reference for the field, providing a state-of-the-art review of PCP which focuses on the theory and its philosophy, methodology, areas of application and future horizons
A definitive new reference work for the field of personal construct psychology, featuring leading international figures in the field
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This chapter considers the extent to which a “credulous approach” can be taken to people who have committed homicide, trying to make sense of their perspectives and their actions in terms of the “diagnostic constructs” of personal construct psychology. This approach is applied to examples of “one‐off” homicide, serial killing, mass murder, and genocide.
This chapter contrasts Kelly's approach to formulation with psychiatric diagnosis, and reviews personal construct perspectives on clinical problems, and associated research, together with developments in, and the evidence base for, personal construct psychotherapy. It is argued that personal construct psychology continues to provide a radical alternative to other clinical approaches.
Applications of personal construct psychology to survivors of the brutal civil war in Sierra Leone, West Africa, are presented. These include explorations of self‐construing in former child soldiers; of constructions of mental health problems and their treatment; of the chaining of people with such problems; of the impact of loss of their limbs on amputees, and the role of football in their recovery;...
This chapter contains sections titled:
Introduction
First Encounters with Personal Construct Psychology and its Credulous Approach
Clinical Psychology
A Buddhist Interlude
Personal Styles and Therapeutic Alternatives
The Evidence Base for Psychological Therapies
The Limits of Credulity
Further Hazards of Credulity
Postscript from Sierra Leone
The classic book on human movement in biomechanics, newly updatedWidely used and referenced, David Winter's Biomechanics and Motor Control of Human Movement is a classic examination of techniques used to measure and analyze all body movements as mechanical systems, including such everyday movements as walking. It fills the gap in human movement science area where modern science and technology are...
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