Hence, determining a person's system of constructs would go a long way towards understanding him, especially the person's essential constructs that represent very strong and unchangeable beliefs and also the constructs a person applies to him/herself. We construe reality constructing constructs. doesn't come when I cry".Ĭonstructs are applied to anything we put our attention to, including ourselves, and also strongly influence what we fix our attention on.
The baby above may have an unconscious construct "Comes. So Fred for instance may be just half between happy and sad (one construct) and definitively clever rather than stupid (another construct). A given person or set of persons or any event or circumstance can be characterized fairly precisely by the set of constructs we apply to it and the position of the thing within the range of each construct. Our mind, said Kelly, is filled up with these constructs, many of them unconscious. A construct has two extreme points, such as "happy-sad" and we tend to place people at either extreme or at some point in between. We build theories -often, stereotypes- about other people and also try to control them or impose on others our own theories so that we are better able to predict their actions.Īll these theories are built up from a system of constructs. if I cry mommy will come, discovers Baby.) and keep up refining our theories as we grow up. "Man is a scientist", said Kelly, in that he is always building up and refining theories and models about how the world works so that he can anticipate events.
#Personal construct therapy drivers
Kelly believed that anticipation and prediction are the main drivers of our mind. The main tenet of PCP theory is the following:Ī person's unique psychological processes are channelized by the way he anticipates events
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