ABSTRACT
The theory of personal constructs, more commonly known as personal construct psychology (PCP), was elaborated by George Kelly and offers tools that can be used to dialogue with other people on a one-to-one basis, interacting in a way which could be meaningful and enriching for both them and the researcher. PCP, in fact, sees other people’s constructs as their way of making sense of the world around them, and of themselves, and does not view some constructs as superior to, or better than, others. Science, in this context, does not hold the monopoly on valid thinking, and not even on itself, since ‘every man [sic] is, in his own particular way, a scientist’. ‘Human experience’ can be seen as the heart of PCP and it is through exploring people’s own constructs that the PCP practitioner strives to achieve an understanding, rather than an explanation, of it.
