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The classic threefold division of psychology into cognition, affection, and conation has been completely abandoned.

— George Kelly

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Man anticipates events by construing their replications.

Diagnosis is all too frequently an attempt to cram a whole live struggling client into a nosological category.

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.

Fundamental Postulate and its Corollaries

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.

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