„I processi di una persona sono psicologicamente canalizzati in funzione dei modi attraverso i quali essa anticipa gli eventi.“
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Frasi di George Kelly
1 0George Kelly
Data di nascita: 28. Aprile 1905
Data di morte: 6. Marzo 1967
George Alexander Kelly è stato uno psicologo statunitense, ideatore della Teoria dei Costrutti Personali, antesignana del Costruttivismo.
Kelly elaborò una tecnica, la "griglia di repertorio”, basata 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 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. Wikipedia
Frasi George Kelly
„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. Adam must have experienced such a moment.“
Variante: 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. Adam must have experienced such a moment.
Origine: The Language of Hypothesis, 1964, p. 158
„I have been so puzzled over the early labelling of personal construct theory 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 A. Kelly. The Psychotherapeutic Relationship. 1965. p. 216
„Diagnosis is all too frequently an attempt to cram a whole live struggling client into a nosological category.“
Origine: The Psychology of Personal Constructs, 1955, p. 775
„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.“
Origine: The Psychology of Personal Constructs, 1955, 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 A. Kelly, "Man's construction of his alternatives." Assessment of human motives (1958): 33-64.
„The classic threefold division of psychology into cognition, affection, and conation has been completely abandoned.“
Origine: The Psychology of Personal Constructs, 1955, p. 130
„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.“
Origine: The function of interpretation in psychotherapy. 1959, p. 20
„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.“
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.
„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 A. Kelly, "Man's construction of his alternatives." Assessment of human motives (1958): 33-64.
„From the standpoint of the psychology of personal constructs we may define a disorder as any personal construction which is used repeatedly in spite of consistent invalidation.“
Origine: The Psychology of Personal Constructs, 1955, p. 831
„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 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.
„We attempt to use the phenomenologist's approach to arrive at personalized constructs which have a wide range of meaning for the given individual; then we attempt to piece together this high-level type of data with what we know about other persons.“
Origine: The Psychology of Personal Constructs, 1955, p. 455
„Fundamental Postulate and its Corollaries“
The Psychology of Personal Constructs, 1955
„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.“
Origine: The Language of Hypothesis, 1964, p. 157, as cited in: Trevor Butt. Understanding People, 2003. p. 89; Described as "a critique of Cartesian dualism"
„Man anticipates events by construing their replications.“
Origine: The Psychology of Personal Constructs, 1955, p. 37 in 2002 edition
„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.“
Origine: The function of interpretation in psychotherapy. 1959, p. 21
