ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the presentation of the repertory of diagnostic constructs which have been systematically designed for the clinician’s use. Constructs enable a person to hear recurrent themes in the onrushing sound and fury of life. They remain relatively serene and secure while the events above which they rise rumble and churn in continuous turmoil. Guilt is an inference within the assumptive structure of the psychology of personal constructs. Alternatively, it can be inferred either deductively from the Fundamental Postulate or inductively from clinical experience. In the business world aggressiveness is often labelled ‘a good thing’. It is the mark of the ‘coming’ or the ‘successful’ man. Sometimes account is taken of the area of one’s aggression. Hostility is the continued effort to extort validational evidence in favour of a type of social prediction which has already proved itself a failure.
