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

— George Kelly

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Man anticipates events by construing their replications.

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

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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