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George Kelly

Data di nascita: 28. Aprile 1905
Data di morte: 6. Marzo 1967

George Alexander Kelly è stato uno psicologo, matematico e pedagogista statunitense, ideatore della teoria della Psicologia dei Costrutti Personali, fondamentale per il Costruttivismo.

Kelly definì un sistema denominato “tecnica delle griglie di repertorio”, basato sul principio che è possibile individuare delle relazioni matematiche tra i costrutti di una persona.

Lavorò negli Stati Uniti d'America soprattutto nell'area della psicologia clinica, elaborando la sua teoria della Psicologia dei Costrutti Personali, centrata sul cambiamento delle persone attraverso la psicoterapia, sebbene ritenesse il termine psicoterapia inadeguato per descrivere l'avventura dell'uomo nelle sue transizioni e trasformazioni.

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Frasi George Kelly

„I processi di una persona sono psicologicamente canalizzati in funzione dei modi attraverso i quali essa anticipa gli eventi.“

— George Kelly
da La psicologia dei costrutti personali

„The labyrinth is conceived as a network of constructs, each of which is essentially an abstraction and, as such, can be picked up and laid down over many, many different events in order to bring them into focus and clothe them with personal meaning. Moreover, the constructs are subject to continual revision, although the complex interdependent relationship between constructs in the system often makes it precarious for the person to revise one construct without taking into account the disruptive effect upon major segments of the system.“

— George Kelly (psychologist)
George A. Kelly, "Man's construction of his alternatives." Assessment of human motives (1958): 33-64.

„Is it a phenomenological theory? Granted that... phenomenology comes from various shapes and sizes, our fundamental postulate does not make the usual phenomenological commitments. We did not say, for example, that one is surrounded only by his perceptions. In fact, we started this discussion by asserting that there is a sense in which all of us are caught up in our circumstances. Nor do we say that each personal world is an island universe. The words 'personal' and 'private' are certainly not synonyms. I think the tree that falls in the primeval forest makes a bang just like any other tree. Moreover. we might sometimes, although at the moment cannot say how, take an interest in the noise that centuries ago nobody heard and eventually makes something scientifically important out of it.“

— George Kelly (psychologist)
p. 6-7

„In the very first course in psychology that I took I sat in the back row of a very large class, tilted my chair against the wall, made myself as comfortable as possible, and kept one ear cocked for anything interesting that might turn up. One day the professor, a very nice person who seemed to be trying hard to convince himself that psychology was something to be taken seriously, turned to the blackboard and wrote an 'S,' an arrow, and an 'R.' Thereupon I straightened up my chair and listened, thinking to myself that now, after two or three weeks of preliminaries, we might be getting to the meat of the matter.“

— George Kelly (psychologist)

„Out of all this I have gradually developed the notion that psychology is pretty much confined to the paradigms it employs and, while you can take off in a great many directions and travel a considerable distance in any of them — as indeed we have with stimulus-response psychology — there is no harm in consorting with a strange paradigm now and then. Indeed the notion has occurred to me that psychology may best be regarded as a collection of paradigms wooed by exphysicists, ex-physiologists, and ex-preachers, as well as a lot of other intellectual renegades. Even more recently it has struck me that this is the nature of man; he is an inveterate collector of paradigms.“

— George Kelly (psychologist)

„A good deal is said these days about being oneself. It is supposed to be healthy to be oneself. While it is a little hard for me to understand how one could be anything else, I suppose what is meant is that one should not strive to become anything other than what he is. This strikes me as a very dull way of living; in fact, I would be inclined to argue that all of us would be better off if we set out to be something other than what we are. Well, I’m not so sure we would all be better off - perhaps it would be more accurate to say life would be a lot more interesting.“

— George Kelly (psychologist)
p. 157, as cited in: Trevor Butt. Understanding People, 2003. p. 89; Described as "a critique of Cartesian dualism"

„Man develops his way of anticipating events by construing, by scratching out his channels of thought. Thus he builds his own maze. His runways are the constructs he forms, each a two-way street, each essentially a pair of alternatives between which he can choose.“

— George Kelly (psychologist)
George A. Kelly, "Man's construction of his alternatives." Assessment of human motives (1958): 33-64.

„I have been so puzzled over the early labelling of as ‘cognitive’ that several years ago I set out to write another short book to make it clear that I wanted no part of cognitive theory.“

— George Kelly (psychologist)
George A. Kelly. The Psychotherapeutic Relationship. 1965. p. 216

„It is important, then, to see confirmation, or the validation of one’s constructs, as securing a base upon which one can build major revisions of [one’s] construct system. This is why we so often cite security as necessary for broad advancement, whether in a person or in society. This is why the arts and sciences flourish at a higher level when nations and people are led to believe they are on the right track.“

— George Kelly (psychologist)
p. 21

„[The evildoer's] behavior has been threatening to those whose own morality is insecure; and as long as he is seen as having exemplified the tempting way of life, there are those who will need to punish him as a prophylaxis for their own temptations.“

— George Kelly (psychologist)
p. 407

„I have been careful not to use either of the terms, 'emotional' or 'affective'. I have been equally careful not to invoke the notion of 'cognition'. The classic distinction which separates these two constructs has, in the manner of most classic distinctions that once were useful, become a barrier to sensitive psychological inquiry. When one so divides the experience of man, it becomes difficult to make the most of the holistic aspirations that may infuse the science of psychology with new life, and may replace the classicism now implicit even in the most 'behaviouristic' research.“

— George Kelly (psychologist)
George A. Kelly, "Humanistic methodology in psychological research," In: B Maher (ed), Clinical Psychology and Personality: the Selected Papers of George Kelly, Wiley. 1969. p. 140.