PSYC 2310H Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Psychopathology, Mental Disorder, Thomas Szasz

• School: Trent University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2310H
• Professor: Carly Bumbacco

Document Summary

George a. kelly"s personal construct theory of personality. Kelly rejected the idea of black and white solutions to complex psychological problems. He believed these problems required more complex approaches. Kelly"s goal was to test interpretations of events and to challenge the traditional concepts of objective reality. Kelly viewed his own theory as a construction: a tool that has value if it achieves some sort of practical goal. Kelly wanted to enable people to improve their lives by thinking in new ways about their problems and themselves. People reveal aspects of their own personality in the constructs they use to describe others . If you want to know what somebody"s thinking, ask them . Kelly based his theory of persons on an explicit view of science and the nature of scientific inquiry. Kelly viewed a theory as being a tentative expression of what has been observed and expected already.