ABSTRACT
The author elucidates that amongst other things, he had a secret longing to be a doctor, but he had learned at school that he was rather short on intelligence. So, at the age of 16, he left school with no encouragement from anyone to stay on. So he went on and took a course in domestic science and went to evening classes in shorthand and typing. On completion of the clinical course and his PhD. he spent some time as an assistant lecturer at the Institute. Then he applied for, and got, a three-year research grant from the Mental Health Research Fund to study the application of personal construct theory to the treatment of stuttering. Personal construct theory helps one understand individual persons rather than people. If he had to stick his neck out and say what, in his own construing, drew him to personal construct theory, and he thinks he would have to say 'freedom'.
