bibliography: arts and personal construct psychology




Arts, general Literature Music

Visual Arts Drama / Acting Dance

Film / TV




Novels and Poems



Arts, general

  • Diamond, C. P. T. (2006). Art proustifies Kelly: Personal searchings and revisitings. In: Scheer, J. W., Sewell, K. W. (Eds.) (2006). Creative construing - Personal constructions in the arts. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag. 196-214.
  • Fransella, F. (2003). New avenues to explore and questions to ask. In Fransella, F. (Ed.) International Handbook of Personal Construct Psychology (pp. 447-454). Wiley: Chichester.
  • Giliberto, M., Ognibeni, M. (2001). Isn't beauty necessary? The importance of aesthetics in theoretical choice. In The Abstracts of the 14th International Personal Construct Psychology Congress, July 2001, Wollongong, Australia. Australian Journal of Psychology, 53, 2001 Supplement, 100.
  • Jankowicz, A. D. (1987). Construing artistic imagery: an alternative approach to creative block. Leonardo 20, 1, 39-45.
  • Jankowicz, A. D. (1987). Construing artistic imagery: a reply to Osbourne. Leonardo 20, 3, 297.
  • Scheer, J. W., Sewell, K. W. (Eds.) (2006). Creative construing - Personal constructions in the arts. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag.
  • Warren, B. (2001). Reflections on the 'artistic mentality' from a PCP perspective. In The Abstracts of the 14th International Personal Construct Psychology Congress, July 2001, Wollongong, Australia. Australian Journal of Psychology, 53, 2001 Supplement, 107.


Literature

  • Bannister, D. (1988, 2006) A PCT view of novel writing and reading. In F. Fransella and L. Thomas (Eds.) Experimenting with personal construct psychology. London: Routledge (pp.509-514) (reprinted in In: Scheer, J. W., Sewell, K. W. (Eds.) (2005). Creative construing - Personal constructions in the arts. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag. 12-16)
  • Bell, R. C. (2001). Personal construct theory and poetry. In The Abstracts of the 14th International Personal Construct Psychology Congress, July 2001, Wollongong, Australia. Australian Journal of Psychology, 53, 2001 Supplement, 96.
  • Bell, R. C. (2006). Two roads converge: Poetry as personal construct psychology. In: Scheer, J. W., Sewell, K. W. (Eds.) (2006). Creative construing - Personal constructions in the arts. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag. 63-73.
  • Boscolo, P., and de Bernardi, B. (1992) Writing as meaningful activity. International Journal of Personal Construct Psychology, 5, 341-353.
  • Brophy, S. (2006). Haiku poetry: Escape from constriction. In: Scheer, J. W., Sewell, K. W. (Eds.) (2006). Creative construing - Personal constructions in the arts. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag. 74-85. 
  • Dell'Aversano, C. (2008).Beyond dream and reality: Surrealism as reconstruction. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 21, 328-342.  
  • Diamond, C. T. P. (1990). Recovering and reconstruing teachers' stories. International Journal of Personal Construct Psychology, 3, 63-76.
  • Farrar, M. (2006). People, poetry and politics – the novels of Don Bannister. In: Scheer, J. W., Sewell, K. W. (Eds.) (2006). Creative construing - Personal constructions in the arts. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag. 17-29.
  • Forster, J. (2001). Reconstruing personal experiences when writing memories. In The Abstracts of the 14th International Personal Construct Psychology Congress, July 2001, Wollongong, Australia. Australian Journal of Psychology, 53, 2001 Supplement, 97.
  • Fransella, F. (2006). George Kelly: Writer and poet. In: Scheer, J. W., Sewell, K. W. (Eds.) (2006). Creative construing - Personal constructions in the arts. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag. 30-50.
  • King, N. (2008). What will hatch? A constructivist autobiographical account of writing poetry. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 21, 274-287.
  • Lee, J. (2000). Shakespeare's 'Hamlet' and the controversies of self. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
  • Mair, M. (1989) Between psychology and psychotherapy: A poetics of experience. London: Routledge.
  • Miall, D.S. (1985) The structure of response: A repertory grid study of a poem. Research in the teaching of English, 19, 254-268.
  • Miall, D.S. (1988) A repertory grid study of response to poetry. In F. Fransella and L. Thomas (Eds.) Experimenting with personal construct psychology. London: Routledge (pp.539-547)
  • Neimeyer, R. A. (2008). The poetics of experience.  Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 21288-297. 
  • Procter, H.G., Procter, J. (2008). The use of qualitative grids to examine the development of the construct good and evil in Byron's play: "Cain: A mystery". Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 21343-354.
  • Raskin, J. D. (1997). Recollections: A one-act play. Constructivism in the Human Sciences 2, 33-63. http://www2.newpaltz.edu/~raskinj/Reprint_Recollections.pdf
  • Scheer, J. W. (2008). HTML - Highway to (Post)Modern Literature:Literary fiction in the Cyber Age. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 21, 355-366.
  • Sewell, K. W. (2008). Christmas present trilogy. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 21, 298-308.
  • Stevens, C. (2006). What-if versions of ourselves: Creative writers speak. In: Scheer, J. W., Sewell, K. W. (Eds.) (2006). Creative construing - Personal constructions in the arts. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag. 51-62.
  • Whitehead, C. (1991). A construct view of Oedipus and Oedipus Rex. Constructive Criticism, 1: 17-31
  • Whitehead, C. (1991). Construing Hamlet. Constructive Criticism, 1: 33-100
  • Whitehead, C. (1991). Toward a construct view of tragedy and comedy. Constructive Criticism, 1: 119-127
  • Whitehead, C. (1991). Construct, image, and predicition. A view of Thomas Hardy’s Jude the obscure through George Kelly’s Psychology of Personal Constructs. Constructive Criticism, 1: 129-149
  • Whitehead, C. (1991). Macbeth’s impulsivity vs. Hamlet’s circumspection. Constructive Criticism, 1: 155-165
  • Whitehead, C. (1991). Hypotheses concerning evil in King Lear. Constructive Criticism, 1: 175-191
  • Whitehead, C. (1991). Construing Ezra Pound’s Cantos. Constructive Criticism, 1: 193-211


Music

  • Ben-Peretz, M. & Kalekin-Fishman, D. (1988). Applying PCP to constructs related to music. In Fransella, F. & Thomas, L. (Eds.) Experimenting with Personal Construct Psychology. Routledge & Kegan Paul: London.
  • Blowers, G.H. & Bacon-Shone, J. (1994). On detecting the differences in jazz: a reassessment of comparative methods of measuring perceptual veridicality. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 12, 41-58.
  • Botella, L. (2008). Timekeeping is everything: Rhythm and the construction of meaning.  Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 21, 309-320.     
  • Burr, V. (2006). Becoming a singer: Voice and reconstruing the self. In: Scheer, J. W., Sewell, K. W. (Eds.) (2006). Creative construing - Personal constructions in the arts. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag. 120-127.
  • Button, E. (2006). Music and the person. In: Scheer, J. W., Sewell, K. W. (Eds.) (2006). Creative construing - Personal constructions in the arts. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag. 88-96.
  • Button, E. J. (1988). Music and personal constructs. In Fransella, F. & Thomas, L. (Eds.) Experimenting with Personal Construct Psychology. Routledge & Kegan Paul: London.
  • Frances, M. (2006). 'Stand at the back and pretend' - the experience of learning to sing. In: Scheer, J. W., Sewell, K. W. (Eds.) (2006). Creative construing - Personal constructions in the arts. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag. 128-141.
  • Kalekin-Fishman, D. (2006).Construing sounds, constructing music. In: Scheer, J. W., Sewell, K. W. (Eds.) (2006). Creative construing - Personal constructions in the arts. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag. 97-109.
  • Kalekin-Fishman, D., Bruen, H., Ben-Peretz, M. (1985). Perception and interpretation of vocal music: Constructs of social groups. International Review of Aesthetic and Sociology of Music, 17, 53-72
  • Scheer, J. W. (2006). Living with jazz: Construing cultural identity. In: Scheer, J. W., Sewell, K. W. (Eds.) (2006). Creative construing - Personal constructions in the arts. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag. 110-118.


Dance

  • Bridges, S. K. (2006). Music and mirrors: Dance as a construction of self. In: Scheer, J. W., Sewell, K. W. (Eds.) (2006). Creative construing - Personal constructions in the arts. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag.  157-164.
  • Cipolletta, S. (2006). Construing through body: Dancing experience. In: Scheer, J. W., Sewell, K. W. (Eds.) (2006). Creative construing - Personal constructions in the arts. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag. 144-156.


Visual arts

  • Burr, V. (2001). The art of writing: embodiment and pre-verbal construing. In The Abstracts of the 14th International Personal Construct Psychology Congress, July 2001, Wollongong, Australia. Australian Journal of Psychology, 53, 2001 Supplement, 96. 
  • Burr, V. (2008). "Bunches of grapes and bananas: Unconstruing the human body in life drawing. Journal of Constructivist Psychology, 21, 321-327.
  • Diamond, C. T. P. (1993a). Gridding a grid: An artist reviews and comprehends his own exhibition. Empirical Studies of the Arts, 11(2), pp. 167-175.
  • Farrar, M. (2005). Photography: Making and Breaking Racialised Boundaries: an Essay in Reflexive, Radical, Visual Sociology. Sociological Research Online, 10, 31/3/2005.


Drama / Acting

  • Mills, D. M. (2005). Darkness in the theatre: The perception of the embodied self in action
    Personal Construct Theory & Practice
    , 2, 1-9
  • Sewell, K. W. (1998). Embodiment, sexuality and self-understanding: Constructivist elaborations of theatrical acting. Constructivism in the Human Sciences, 3, 56-69
  • Sewell, K. W. (2006). Construing characters and casts: Personal constructs on the stage and in the dressing room. In: Scheer, J. W., Sewell, K. (Eds.) (2006). Creative construing - Personal constructions in the arts. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag. 166-175.


Film / TV

  • Blowers, G. & McCoy, M. M. (1986). Perceiving cinematic episodes: a cross-cultural repertory grid study of a narrative film segment. International Journal of Psychology, 21, 317-332.
  • Clair, S, Preston, J M (1990). Integration in personal constructions of television. International Journal of Personal Construct Psychology, 3, 377-391.
  • Frost, W. A. K. (1969). The development of a technique for TV programme assessment. Journal of the Marketing Research Society, 11, 25-44.
  • Kelly, G. A. (1955). Television and the teacher. American Psychologist, 10, 590-592.
  • Raskin, J. (2006). Sociality and the sitcom. In: Scheer, J. W., Sewell, K. W. (Eds.) (2006). Creative construing - Personal constructions in the arts. Giessen: Psychosozial-Verlag. 176-193.


Novels and Poems

  • Bannister, D. (1979) Sam Chard, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul
  • Bannister, D. (1981) Long Day at Shiloh, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul
  • Bannister, D. (1982) Burning Leaves, London: Routledge and Kegan Paul
  • Bannister, D. (1984) The Summer Boy, London: Heinemann
  • Bannister, D. (1987) Hard Walls of Ego, London: Secker and Warburg
  • Brophy, S. (1991). The corner of a field and other poems. Dublin: Rainsford Press.
  • Brophy, S. (1997). Rosie Reilly and other poems. Dublin: Rainsford Press.
  • Brophy, S. (2004). Girl through my window and other poems. Dublin: Rainsford Press.
  • Brophy, S. The awakening and other poems and other poems. Dublin: Rainsford Press.
  • Brophy, S. Elegy and other poems. Dublin: Rainsford Press.
  • Brophy, S. Loving Emily and other poems. Dublin: Rainsford Press.
  • Brophy, S. The woman next door and other poems. Dublin: Rainsford Press.
  • Neimeyer, R. A. (2006), Rainbow in the Stone.  Memphis, TN:  Mercury -
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