ABSTRACT
Although interest in personal construct theory grew slowly in the decades that followed the publication of his work, Kelly was in a sense ahead of his time. Certainly, an emphasis on the role of personal systems of meaning and the ®ctional construction of identities seemed an odd ®t in a ®eld dominated by a concern with unconscious motives on the one hand and the modi®cation of observable behavior on the other. Consequently, it was not until a postmodern Zeitgeist began to work its way into the human sciences and the helping professions some 30±40 years later that signi®cant numbers of psychotherapy theorists began to rediscover Kelly's insights and extend them in radically new directions.
