articles and books

Studies In Meaning 3: Constructivist Psychotherapy in the Real World
Jonathan D. Raskin & Sara K. Bridges (Eds) (2008)

In this volume, constructivist psychology is presented as it relates to everyday practice. For more details, please click HERE.

Buy via the Pace University Press website

One of the best loved books on PCP has just been re-published.
The Child Within - Taking the Young Person's Perspective by Applying Personal Construct Psychology by Richard Butler and David Green published by Wiley is now available in a second edition. For more details, please click HERE.

Buy on amazon.co.uk

Everyone who teaches and promotes PCP will delighted to hear that Peggy Dalton and Gavin Dunnett's book, A Psychology for Living, is at last back in print. Updated by Peggy, it once again offers a comprehensive and accessible introduction to PCP for all.

A Psychology for Living
Peggy Dalton and Gavin Dunnett,
Second edition, Whurr, 2005

Peggy writes:
Every book has its own story. The first edition of A Psychology for Living has a rather convoluted one....(read more)
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Working with Anger: A Practical Constructivist Approach
Ed. Peter Cummins
Wiley, 2005

Peter writes:
As many of you will know this book has been a long time in production! The first question I struggled with was what sort of treatment approaches could be developed within a constructivist perspective....(read more)
Buy via the Wiley website

Personal construct psychotherapy: advances in theory, practice and research
Eds. David Winter and Linda Viney
Whurr, 2005
Buy on amazon.co.uk

Creative construing – personal constructions in the arts
Eds. Jörn W Scheer and Kenneth W Sewell
Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag, 2006
Buy via Jörn Scheer's website

For an excellent introduction to using the repertory grid:

The Easy Guide to Repertory Grids
Devi Jancowicz
Wiley 2003
www.wiley.co.uk/easyguide

Devi writes:
If you're serious about understanding your own car and how it works in sufficient detail to be able to fix it, you buy a workshop guide. If you're interested in how to devise, use, and analyse repertory grids, you might like to consider this book....(read more)

We also have volumes from European PCP conferences available at discount rates:

Fisher, J. M., Cornelius, N. (Eds.)
Challenging the boundaries: PCP perspectives for the new millennium
Papers from the 2000 EPCA conference in Malta

Fisher, J. M., Savage, D. J. (Eds).
Beyond experimentation into meaning
Papers from the 1999 EPCA Conference

£12 each plus postage and packing - to be ordered from Mary Frances.

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