ABSTRACT
If we are to have a psychology of man’s experiences, we must anchor our basic concepts in that personal experience, not in the experiences he causes others to have or which he appears to seek to cause others to have. (Kelly, 1969e)
Traditional psychiatry has encouraged us to cling to the notion of ‘mental illness’. It has formalised this into diagnostic categories so that we are not deeply unhappy, we suffer from a ‘depressive illness’, we are not gravely confused, we suffer from ‘schizophrenia’, and so forth (Bannister, 1985).
