Peter Caputi & Heather Foster 
Personal Construct Psychology 
New Ideas

This book presents the latest thinking and research in Personal
Construct Psychology (PCP) covering a broad range of areas of
interest to both researcher and practitioner. It provides reports
of empirical research, reflections by practicing personal construct
psychologists and conceptual analyses of issues pertaining to
current and emerging theoretical issues in PCP. The book consists
of five sections covering:

* Theory and History

* Assessment and Understanding

* Problems of Living

* Evidence-Based Interventions

* Other Interventions, Clinical and Educational

Contributors are international scholars and practitioners based
in a variety of clinical settings. In addition, the contributions
reflect the internationalisation of PCP, with contributors coming
from the USA, the UK, Europe and Australasia.

Personal Construct Psychology is a valuable resource for
a wide range of health professionals, educationalists and
practitioners in counselling and clinical psychology.

Table of Content

About the Editors.

List of Contributors.

Preface.

Acknowledgements.

SECTION I: THEORY AND HISTORY.

1. Applying personal construct models to work with people
(Linda L. Viney).

2. Personal construct therapy and its history in pragmatism
(Trevor Butt).

3. Reflections on the ‘artistic mentality’ and
personal construct psychology (Bill Warren).

4. Personal construct psychology through a poststructural
lens (Paula Eustace and Nina Bruni).

5. The joint spatial representation of constructs and elements
(Prasuna Reddy and Richard C. Bell).

6. The ‘inquiring man’ in the laboratory
(Harald Seelig and Janina Radó).

7. Small steps against the tyranny of distance in isolated
communities (Linda L. Viney).

SECTION II: ASSESSMENT AND UNDERSTANDING.

8. Therapeutic artistry: evoking experiential and
relational truths (Larry M. Leitner).

9. Diversity and multiculturalism in psychotherapy:
A personal construct perspective (Derek C. Oliver and Mark W.
Schlutsmeyer).

10. Making sense of dementia (Sally Robbins and Mike
Bender).

11. Psychotherapists’ theoretical orientations as
elaborative choices (David A. Winter, Finn Tschudi and Nicholas
Gilbert).

12. A personal construct theory view of professional identity
(Julie Ellis).

SECTION III: PROBLEMS OF LIVING.

13. Trust and dependency in younger and older people (Nicole
G. Rossotti, David A. Winter and Mary H. Watts).

14. THC and PCP: factors maintaining cannabis use in people with
and without psychosis (Bob Green).

15. Counselling after sexual assault: a personal construct model
of the impact of counsellors’ responses to client disclosure
(Carole Carter and Linda L. Viney).

16. Role relationships and the restoration of coherence in the
stories of women diagnosed with breast cancer (Lisbeth G. Lane
and Linda L. Viney).

17. A hygienic process? Researcher and participants construing
each other’s worlds (Alessandra Iantaffi).

SECTION IV: EVIDENCE-BASED INTERVENTIONS.

18. Menopause: the start of change (Heather Foster and Linda
L. Viney).

19. When the unreal becomes real: an evaluation of personal
construct group psychotherapy with survivors of breast cancer
(Lisbeth G. Lane and Linda L. Viney).

20. Personal construct group work with troubled
adolescents (Deborah Truneckova and Linda L. Viney).

SECTION V: OTHER INTERVENTIONS, CLINICAL AND
EDUCATIONAL.

21. Tapping into pre-service teachers’ perceptions of
successful language teachers: A repertory grid approach (Pamela
Leung).

22. Movement in personal change: the practice of dance therapy
(Sabrina Cipolletta).

23. The posture of anticipation: Kelly and Alexander (David
M. Mills).

24. The art of writing: embodiment and pre-verbal construing
(Vivien Burr).

Index.

About the author

Peter Caputi is a senior lecturer in the School of
Psychology at the University of Wollongong. He has published over
30 journal articles in the areas of Personal Construct Psychology,
information systems and measurement issues in psychology, as well
as co-authoring a textbook in research methods. He has reviewed for
the International Journal of Personal Construct Psychology,
now the Journal of Constructivist Psychology and Personal
Construct Theory and Practice. He has also edited conference
abstracts for the Australian Journal of Psychology.

Linda L. Viney is Professor in Clinical Psychology at the
University of Wollongong. She was instrumental in introducing
personal Construct Psychology in Australia and published
extensively in the area as well as generally in clinical,
counseling and health psychology. She has been Consulting Editor
and Editor of the Australian Psychologist, and official
journal of the APS. Linda has also been Foundation Member of the
Editorial Board of the International Journal of Personal
Construct Psychology, now the Journal of Constructivist
Psychology (1988-), and Guest Editor of the issue based on the
Fourth Australasian Conference on Personal Construct Psychology,
which she co-ordinated in Volume 3 (1990). Special Editor 1999,
Community Mental Health Journal, for the American
Association of Community Psychiatrists.

Heather Foster Ph D, Dip Ed (Tech.), is a registered
psychologist who ahs applied personal construct psychology in
clinical, academic and research areas of psychology. Her research
interest is in changes in mid-life, particularly menopause. She
draws on a wide background in psychology and vocational education
and training and worked for many years in the NSW vocational and
education training system. Her work include counseling, teaching,
curriculum, policy and management roles, and involved writing,
editing and managing the production of educational
publications.