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Personal Construct Psychology - an introduction
Personal Construct Psychology (PCP), (or Personal Construct
Theory - PCT) is a concept pioneered by George Kelly. Personal
Construct Psychology theory proposes that we must understand
how the other person sees their world and what meaning they
attribute to things in order to effectively communicate and
connect with them. Personal Construct Psychology theory is
extremely relevant to developing personal emotional maturity
and self-awareness in self and others, and for understanding
behaviour in others, and as such the concepts of Personal
Construct Psychology augment and support many of the
behavioural models and methodologies explained on this
website.
Personal Construct Psychology theory provides a very useful and
accessible additional perspective to the world and how we relate
to it.
This article was written by John Fisher and Dr David Savage. It
first appeared in Fisher and Savage (eds), 1999, Beyond
Experimentation Into Meaning, EPCA Publications, Farnborough.
Permission to reprint this article here is gratefully
acknowledged.
Personal Construct Psychology (PCP) is a psychology that places
the individual at its central focal point. It is based on
understanding the individual from within their own world view that is by understanding how they see the world not how we
interpret their picture of the world. We all interact with the
world from a unique perspective - our own, this interaction is
built up of all our past and potential future experiences and
dictates how we approach situations.
Psychological theory, generally, purports that we observe other
people's behaviours and actions and place our own
interpretations on them, attributing meaning based on our own

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