„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
Frasi di George Kelly
1 0George Kelly
Data di nascita: 28. Aprile 1905
Data di morte: 6. Marzo 1967
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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.
Frasi George Kelly
„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
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„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
„While we could agree with the psychological phenomenologists and assign an important place to generalization within the realm of the individual, we were quite sure that some data must be lifted from the realm of the individual and construed nomothetically that is, in a realm comprising many individuals.“
— George Kelly (psychologist)
p. 677-678
„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.
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„Johann Herbart’s work on education and particularly mathematical psychology influenced me. I think mathematics is the pure instance of construct functioning—the model of human behaviour.“
— George Kelly (psychologist)
Attributed to George A. Kelly in Hinkle (1970, p. 91), as cited in: Fay Fransella and Robert A. Neimeyer. "George Alexander Kelly: The man and his theory." International handbook of personal construct psychology (2003): 21-31.
„I sketched an epistemological position that assumed the reality of events, independently of how they are perceived. In taking this stand I broke off with the position known as phenomenology; at least I broke off with phenomenology to the extent that it is a form of pure philosophical idealism.“
— George Kelly (psychologist)
p. 20
„What I am saying is that it is not so much what man is that counts as it is what he ventures to make of himself. To make the leap he must do more than disclose himself; he must risk a certain amount of confusion. Then, as soon as he does catch a glimpse of a different kind of life, he needs to find some way of overcoming the paralyzing moment of threat, for this is the instant when he wonders who he really is - whether he is what he just was or is what he is about to be.“
— George Kelly (psychologist)
p. 147
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„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 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.
