Construing Personal Construct Therapy

1988 ◽  
Vol 33 (9) ◽  
pp. 803-804
Author(s):  
Lawrence A. Pervin
Keyword(s):  
Personal Construct

DEPRESSION AND LOGICAL CONSISTENCY OF PERSONAL CONSTRUCTS

1986 ◽  
Vol 14 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-206
Author(s):  
W. V. Chambers ◽  
V. Trinh ◽  
L. Parsley
Keyword(s):  
The Self ◽  
Personal Construct ◽  
Personal Constructs ◽  
Logical Consistency ◽  
College Sample ◽  
Logical Inconsistency ◽  
Moderate Depression

Neimeyer has suggested that moderately depressed people tend to have relatively disorganized personal construct systems. Non-depressed people see themselves consistently positively, highly depressed people view themselves negatively, while moderately depressed people view the self with ambivalence. Using a grid measure of logical consistency, with a college sample, moderate depression scores were found to accompany greater levels of logical inconsistency. Results offer some support for Neimeyer's suggestion that moderate depression, as opposed to nondepression and deep depression, leads to greater disorganization of construct systems.

Mourning and Reminiscence: Parallel Psychotherapeutic Processes for Elderly People

1989 ◽  
Vol 28 (4) ◽  
pp. 239-249 ◽  
Author(s):  
Linda L. Viney ◽  
Yvonne N. Benjamin ◽  
Carol Preston
Keyword(s):  
Elderly People ◽  
The Elderly ◽  
Relevant Information ◽  
Theoretical Explanation ◽  
Personal Construct ◽  
Elderly Persons ◽  
Personal Construct Theory ◽  
Psychotherapeutic Processes ◽  
Construct Theory ◽  
The Relationship

Mourning and reminiscence are therapeutic processes common in therapeutic work with the elderly. However, a theoretical explanation of why they are effective has been lacking. Personal construct theory accounts for both in terms of the search of elderly persons for validation of their construct systems. In this article, this explanation of the parallel psychotherapeutic processes is explored, together with relevant information from the literature on mourning and reminiscence. Therapeutic case studies illustrate the characteristics of the two processes and the relationship between them.

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