Books on PCP

This page brings together our full bibliography on Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) — from Kelly's foundational texts to recent scholarship. Use the "Essential Readings" selection below for a curated starting point, browse recently published titles, or explore the complete list organized by topic, including clinical psychology, education, business, the arts, and research methods.

Books on PCP

    • Kelly GA (1955). The psychology of personal constructs. Vol. I, II. Norton, New York. (2nd printing: 1991, Routledge, London, New York)

    • Kelly GA (1963). A theory of personality. The psychology of personal constructs. Norton, New York (= Chapt. 1-3 of Kelly 1955). 

    • Kelly GA (1969). Clinical psychology and personality: The selected papers of George Kelly (ed B Maher). Wiley, New York. 

    • Butt, T. (2008). George Kelly. Basingstoke, UK: Palgrave Macmillan.

    • Chiari, G. (2017): George A. Kelly and his personal Construct theory. iBook Store

    • Fransella F (1995). George Kelly. Sage, London 

    • Neimeyer RA (1985). The development of personal construct psychology. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln.

    • Adams-Webber J (1979). Personal construct theory. Concepts and applications. Wiley, Chichester, New York, Brisbane, Toronto.

    • Bannister D (1970). Perspectives in personal construct theory. Academic Press, London.

    • Bannister D (ed) (1977). New perspectives in personal construct theory. Academic Press, London, New York, San Francisco.

    • Bannister D (ed) (1985). Issues and approaches in personal construct theory. Academic Press, London.

    • Bannister D, Fransella F (1971). Inquiring man. The theory of personal constructs. Penguin, Harmondsworth. 

    • Bannister D, Mair JMM (1968). The evaluation of personal constructs. Academic Press, London, New York.

    • Burr V, Butt T (1992). Invitation to personal construct psychology. Whurr, London. (2nd edition published as 'Butt, T, Burr, V.' in 2004).

    • Fransella, F (Ed). (2003). International handbook of PCP. Chichester: Wiley.

    • Fransella, F. (Ed.) (2005). The Essential Practitioner’s Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology. Chichester: Wiley.

    • Mancuso JC, Adams-Webber JR (eds)(1982). The construing person. Praeger, New York.

    • Mancuso JC, Shaw MLG (eds)(1987). Cognition and personal structure. New York: Praeger.

    • Neimeyer GJ, Neimeyer RA (eds) (1990). Advances in personal construct psychology, Vol 1. JAI Press, Greenwich, CT. 

    • Neimeyer GJ, Neimeyer RA (eds) (1992). Advances in personal construct psychology, Vol 2. JAI Press, Greenwich, CT. 

    • Neimeyer GJ, Neimeyer RA (eds) (1995). Advances in personal construct psychology, Vol 3. JAI Press, Greenwich, CT. 

    • Neimeyer GJ, Neimeyer RA (eds) (1997). Advances in personal construct psychology, Vol 4. JAI Press, Greenwich, CT.

    • Neimeyer GJ, Neimeyer RA (eds) (  ). Advances in personal construct psychology, Vol 5. JAI Press, Greenwich, CT. 

    • Shaw MLG (1980). On becoming a personal scientist. Academic Press, London.

    • Shaw MLG (1981). Recent advances in personal construct technology.

    • Shaw M. L. G., Keen, T. R. (1982). Practicalities of personal construct theory. Canada Cybersystems Publishing

    • Slater P (1964). The principal components of a repertory grid. Vincent Andrew, London.

    • Slater P (ed) (1976). The measurement of intrapersonal space by grid technique. Vol 1: Explorations of intrapersonal space. Wiley, London, New York, Sydney, Toronto.

    • Slater P (ed) (1977). The measurement of intrapersonal space by grid technique. Vol 2: Dimensions of intrapersonal space. Wiley, London, New York, Sydney, Toronto.

    • Stringer P, Bannister D (1971). Constructs of sociality and individuality. Academic Press, London. 

    • Warren, William (1998). Philosophical dimensions of Personal Construct Psychology. London: Routledge.

    • Fransella F, Bannister D (1977). A manual for repertory grid technique. Academic Press, London, New York, San Francisco.

    • Fransella F, Bell, R, Bannister D (2003). A manual for repertory grid technique. 2nd ed. Chichester: Wiley.

    • Fromm, M. (2004). Introduction to the Repertory Grid Interview. Münster: Waxmann

    • Jankowicz, A D (2003) The Easy Guide to Repertory Grids. Chichester: Wiley. 

    • Stewart V, Stewart A (1981). Business applications of repertory grid technique. McGraw-Hill, New York.

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    • Adams-Webber J, Mancuso JC (eds) (1983). Applications of personal construct theory. Academic Press, Don Mills, Canada., 4th International Congress on Personal Construct Psychology 1982, St. Catherines/Canada

    • Bonarius H, Holland R, Rosenberg S (eds) (1981). Personal construct psychology. Recent advances in theory and practice. MacMillon, London, Basingstoke., 3rd International Congress on Personal Construct Psychology 1979, Breukelen/Niederlande

    • Caputi P (ed) (2001). The Abstracts of the 14th International Personal Construct Psychology Congress, 16-20 July 2001, University of Wollongong, NSW. Australian Journal of Psychology - Supplement 2001 (95-107)., 14th International Personal Construct Psychology Congress, 16-20 July 2001, University of Wollongong, NSW.

    • Caputi, P., Foster, H., Viney, L. L. (eds.) (2006). Personal construct psychology: New Ideas. Chichester: Wiley., 14th International Personal Construct Psychology Congress, 16-20 July 2001, University of Wollongong, NSW.

    • Chiari G, Nuzzo ML (2003). Psychological Constructivism and the Social World. Milano: Franco Angeli, 6th Conference of the European Personal Construct Association - EPCA 2002, Firenze/Italia

    • Denicolo, P. M., Pope, M. L. (eds.) (1997). Sharing understanding and practice. Farnborough: EPCA Publications, 3rd Conference of the European Personal Construct Association - EPCA 1996, Reading/England

    • Ellis-Scheer, J M (ed) (2001). 'Beyond the Y2K - Construing the Future' - The Abstracts of the 9th Australasian Personal Construct Psychology Conference, July 2001, Bendigo, Vic. Australian Journal of Psychology - Supplement 2001 (90-94)., 9th Australasian Personal Construct Psychology Conference, July 2001, Bendigo, Vic.

    • Epting FR, Landfield AW (eds) (1985). Anticipating Personal construct theory. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska., 5th International Congress on Personal Construct Psychology 1983, Boston, Mass./USA

    • Fisher, J., M., Cornelius, N. (Eds.) (2001). Challenging the boundaries: PCP perspectives for the new millennium. Farnborough: EPCA Publications., 5th Conference of the European Personal Construct Association - EPCA 2000, Malta

    • Fisher, John M., Savage, David J. (1999). Beyond experimentation into meaning. Papers from the 1998 EPCA Conference. Lostock Hall: Epca Publications. (290 p)., 4th Conference of the European Personal Construct Association - EPCA 1998, Chester/England

    • Fransella F (eds) (1978). Personal construct psychology 1977. Academic Press, London, New York, San Francisco., 2nd International Congress on Personal Construct Psychology 1977, Oxford/England

    • Fransella F, Thomas L (eds) (1988). Experimenting with personal construct psychology. Routledge & Kegan Paul, London & New York., 6th International Congress on Personal Construct Psychology 1985, Cambridge/England

    • Jones H, Dunnett G (eds.) (1992). Selected Papers from the Second British Conference on Personal Construct Psychology, York, England, 1990, 2nd British Conference on Personal Construct Psychology 1990, York/England

    • Landfield AW, Cole, JK (ed) (1977). Nebraska symposium on motivation 1976, Univ. of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, = 1st International Congress on Personal Construct Psychology 1976, Lincoln, Nebraska/USA

    • Raskin, J. D., Bridges, S. K. (Eds.) (2002). Studies in meaning. Exploring constructivist psychology. New York: Pace University Press., 9th Conference of the North American Personal Construct Network - NAPCN, 2000, New Paltz, NY/USA)

    • Scheer, J. W. (2000) (ed.). The Person in Society - Challenges to a Constructivist Theory. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag, 13th International Congress on Personal Construct Psychology 1999, Berlin/Germany

    • Scheer, J. W., Catina A (1996) (eds). Empirical constructivism in Europe - The Personal Construct Approach. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag, 2nd Conference of the European Personal Construct Association - EPCA 1994, St. Andreasberg/Germany

    • Thomson A, Cummins P (1992). European perspectives in Personal Construct Psychology. Lincoln: European Personal Construct Association, Inaugural Conference of the EPCA 1992, York/England

    • Walker BM, Costigan J, Viney, LL, Warren B (eds) (1996). Personal Construct Theory. A Psychology for the Future. Australian Psychological Society: APS Imprint Book., 10th International Congress on Personal Construct Psychology 1993, Townsville/Australien

    • D. Winter, P. Cummins, H. Procter, N. Reed (Eds.) (2017). Personal Construct Psychology at 60. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing., 21st International Congress on Personal Construct Psychology 2015, Hatfield, Herts., UK

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    • Bannister D, Fransella F (1967). Grid Test of thought disorder: A standard clinical test. Psychological Test Publications, Barnstaple.

    • Beail N (ed) (1985). Repertory grid technique and personal constructs - Applications in clinical and educational settings. Croom Helm, London & Sydney. 

    • Beech, H.R., Fransella, F. (1968). Research and experiments in stuttering. Oxford: Pergamon Press.

    • Blowers, G. H., O´Connor, K. P. (1996). Personal construct psychology in the clinical context. Ottawa: University of Ottawa Press. 

    • Button E (ed) (1985). Personal construct theory and mental health. Brooksline, Cambridge, MA. 

    • Button, E (1993). Eating disorders. Personal construct therapy and change. Chichester: Wiley 

    • Courtney, C, (Ed.) (2000). Ups & Downs - lives of love, challenge and commitment. Blackburn: PenFold

    • Cummins, P. (Ed.) (2005). Working with anger: a constructivist approach. London: Wiley 

    • Dalton P, Dunnett G (1992). A psychology for living.- Personal construct theory for professionals and clients. Wiley, London. 2nd edition 2005 

    • Dunnett G (ed) (1988). Working with people. Clinical uses of personal construct psychology. Routledge, London. 

    • Epting, F.R. (1984). Personal construct counselling and psychotherapy. New York: Wiley.

    • Epting F, Neimeyer RA (eds) (1984). Personal meanings of death: Applications of personal construct theory to clinical practice. Hemisphere/MacGraw Hill, New York.

    • Faidley A, Leitner LM (1993). Assessing experience in psychotherapy. Westport: Praeger. 

    • Fransella F (1972). Personal change and reconstruction: research on a treatment of stuttering. Academic Press, London.

    • Fransella F, Dalton P (1990). Personal Contruct counselling in action. . Sage, London, Newbury Park, New Delhi. (2nd ed. 2002)

    • Hayhow R, Levy C (eds)(1989). Working with stuttering: a personal construct therapy approach. Bicester, Oxon: Winslow Press.

    • Landfield A (1971). Personal construct systems in psychotherapy. Rand McNally, Chicago.

    • Landfield A, Epting F (1987). Personal construct psychology: clinical and personality assessment. Human Sciences Press, New York. 

    • Landfield A, Leitner L (eds) (1980). Personal construct psychology: Psychotherapy and personality. Wiley Interscience, New York.

    • Leitner LM, Dunnett NGM (eds) (1993). Critical issues in personal construct psychotherapy. Krieger, Malabar 

    • Mair JM (1989). Between psychology and psychotherapy.- A poetics of experience. Routledge, London.

    • Neimeyer GJ (ed) (1993). Casebook of constructivist assessment. Newbury Park, CA: Sage. 

    • Neimeyer, R. A. (Ed.) (199 ). Death Anxiety Handbook: Research, Instrumentation, and Application. Bristol/PA: Taylor and Francis.

    • Neimeyer RA, Mahoney MJ (eds) (1995). Constructivism in psychotherapy. Washinton, D.C.: American Psychological Association. 

    • Neimeyer RA, Neimeyer GJ (eds) (1987). Personal construct therapy casebook. Springer, New York. 

    • Raskin, J. D., Bridges, S. K. (Eds.) (2008): Studies In Meaning 3: Constructivist Psychotherapy in the Real World. New York: Pace University Press 

    • Ryle A (1975). Frames and cages: The repertory grid approach to human understanding. Chatto & Windus for Sussex University Press, London. 

    • Ryle A (1982). Psychotherapy: A cognitive integration of theory and practice. Academic Press, London. 

    • Viney, L. L. (1980). Transitions. North Ryde (NSW, Australia): Cassell.

    • Viney, L. L. (1983). Images of illness. Krieger, Malabar, Florida.

    • Viney, L. L. (1993). Life stories. Personal Construct Psychotherapy with the Elderly. Chichester: Wiley.

    • Viney, L. L. (1996). Personal construct therapy: A handbook. N.J.: Ablex.

    • Wass H, Berardo F, Neimeyer RA (eds) (1988). Dying: Facing the facts. Hemisphere/Harper & Row, New York. 

    • Winter D (1992). Personal construct theory in clinical practice. Routledge, London.

    • Winter, D., Viney, L.L. (Eds.)  (2005). Personal Construct Psychotherapy: Advances in Theory, Practice and Research.  London: Wiley

    • Beail N (ed) (1985). Repertory grid technique and personal constructs - Applications in clinical and educational settings. Croom Helm, London & Sydney. 

    • Breen D (1975). The birth of a first child. London: Tavistock.

    • Burnham S (2008). Let's Talk - Using Personal Construct Psychology to support children and young people. London; Chapman 

    • Butler, R., Green, D. (1998). The child within. The exploration of personal construct theory with young people. Oxford: Butterworth & Heinemann (+). £ 14.99

    • Candy PC (1981). Mirrors of the mind: Personal construct theory in the training of adult educators. Dept. of Adult and Higher Education., Univ. of Manchester. Manchester Monographs 16.

    • Denicolo, PM, Pope, M (2000). Transformative professional practice: Personal construct approaches to education and research. London: Whurr

    • Duck SW (1973). Personal relationships and personal constructs: a study of friendship formation. Wiley, London.

    • Morrison, P, Burnard, P (1991). Caring and communicating. The interpersonal relationship in nursing. Basingstoke: Macmillan.

    • Pope, M, Denicolo, PM (2001). Transformative education: Personal construct approaches to practice and research. London: Whurr.

    • Pope M, Keen T (1981). Personal construct psychology and education. Academic Press, London 

    • Ravenette, A. T. (1997). Tom Ravenette: Selected papers. Personal construct psychology and the practice of an educational psychologist. Farnborough: EPCA Publications.

    • Ravenette, Tom (1999). Personal Construct Theory in Educational Psychology - A Practitioner's View. London: Whurr. (281 p, £ 19.50)

    • Salmon, P. (1988). Psychology for teachers: an alternative approach. Hutchison Education.

    • Salmon P (1995). Psychology in the classroom: Reconstructing teachers and learners. London: Cassell (= 2nd edition of Salmon, P. (1988). Psychology for teachers) 

    • Thomas, L.F., Harri-Augstein, E.S. (1985). Self-organised learning: Foundations of a conversational science for psychology. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

    • Horley, J (Ed.) (2003) Personal Construct Perspectives on Forensic Psychology. London: Brunner-Routledge. 

    • Kalekin-Fishman, D., Walker, B. M. (eds.) (1996). The construction of group realities. Malabar, Florida: Krieger

    • Scheer, J W (Ed.). (2003) Crossing Broders - Going Places. Personal Constructions of Otherness. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag

    • Scheer, J. W., Sewell, K. W. (2006). Creative Construing. Personal Constructions in the Arts. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag.

    • Caputi, P., Viney, L.L., Walker, B.M., Crittenden, N. (Eds.) (2012). Personal Construct Methodology. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.

    • Denicolo, P., Long,T.,  Bradley-Cole, K. (2016). Constructivist approaches and research methods.A practical guide to exploring personal meanings. London: Sage

Essential Readings

    • Kelly GA (1955). The psychology of personal constructs. Vol. I, II. Norton, New York. (2nd printing: 1991, Routledge, London, New York)

      • Kelly GA (1963). A theory of personality. The psychology of personal constructs. Norton, New York (= Chapt. 1-3 of Kelly 1955). 

    • Kelly GA (1969). Clinical psychology and personality: The selected papers of George Kelly (ed B Maher). Wiley, New York.

    • Butt, T., Burr, V. (2004). Invitation to personal construct psychology. Whurr, London. (2nd edition)

    • Fransella, F. (Ed). (2003). International Handbook of PCP. Chichester: Wiley.

    • Fransella, F. (Ed.) (2005). The Essential Practitioner’s Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology. Chichester: Wiley.

    • Winter, D., Reed, N. (Eds.) (2016) Wiley Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology, Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.

    • Caputi, P., Viney, L.L., Walker, B.M., Crittenden, N. (Eds.) (2012). Personal Construct Methodology. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell.

    • Denicolo, P., Long,T.,  Bradley-Cole, K. (2016). Constructivist approaches and research methods.A practical guide to exploring personal meanings. London: Sage

    • Fransella F, Bell, R, Bannister D (2003). A manual for repertory grid technique. 2nd ed. Chichester: Wiley.

    • Jankowicz, A D (2003) The Easy Guide to Repertory Grids. Chichester: Wiley.

    • Winter D. (1992). Personal construct theory in clinical practice. Routledge, London.

    • Winter, D., Viney, L. L. (eds.) (2005). Personal Construct Psychotherapy: Advances in Theory, Practice and Research. London: Wiley

    • Butler, R., Green, D. (1998). The child within. The exploration of personal construct theory with young people. Oxford: Butterworth & Heinemann

    • Ravenette, T. (1999). Personal Construct Theory in Educational Psychology - A Practitioner's View. London: Whurr.

    • Salmon, P. (1995). Psychology in the classroom: Reconstructing teachers and learners. London: Cassell

    • Pope, M., Denicolo, P. M. (2001). Transformative education: Personal construct approaches to practice and research. London: Whurr.

    • Kalekin-Fishman, D., Walker, B. M. (eds.) (1996). The construction of group realities. Malabar, Florida: Krieger

    • Scheer, J. W. (Ed.) (2003) Crossing Broders - Going Places. Personal Constructions of Otherness. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag.

    • Horley, J (Ed.) (2003). Personal Construct Perspectives on Forensic Psychology. London: Brunner-Routledge.

    • Scheer, J. W., Sewell, K. W. (2006). Creative construing - Personal constructions in the arts. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag.

New Books

  • Personal Construct Psychology at 60

    D. Winter, P. Cummins, H. Procter, N. Reed (Eds.)
    Personal Construct Psychology at 60

    Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing., 2017, 469 p.

    Hardback: £ 67,00, $US 114.95

    ISBN-13: 978-1-4438-8279-8

    ISBN-10: 1-4438-8279-8

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  • George A. Kelly and his personal construct theory.

    Gabriele Chiari.
    George A. Kelly and his personal construct theory.

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  • Constructivist approaches and research methods.

    Pam Denicolo, Trevor Long, Kim Bradley-Cole.Constructivist approaches and research methods.
    A practical guide to exploring personal meanings.    Sage, 2016, 248 p.

    Paperback: £ 32.99
    ISBN: 978-1-473930308

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  • Wiley Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology.

    David Winter, Nick Reed (Eds.).Wiley Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology.Chichester, Wiley, 2016, 576 p.

    Hardcover: £120.00 / € 162.00
    E-Book: £ 32.99 / € 43.99
    ISBN: 978-1-118-50831-2
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