Meanings
- not comparablehuman sciencesRelated to the work or theories of George Kelly, especially personal construct theory.
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Stewart and Grantham (1993) report that Client C commented upon feelings of Kellian guilt on a number of occasions: "I suppose I was mourning the loss of my 'old self', the person I was, because in order to cope I've had to change. I feared most of all a loss of identity, that C. would become 'the one who stammers'".
2012 December 6, M. M. Leahy, T. Stewart, “Idiopathic Stuttering Onset in Adults”, in Yvan Lebrun, editor, From the Brain to the Mouth: Acquired Dysarthria and Dysfluency in Adults, Springer Science & Business Media, →ISBN, page 142CTUK work with lorry drivers to help them subsume the experience of cyclists. Early in the training they are taken out on bicycles, on busy roads where they may experience Kellian threat first hand (drivers who are used to feeling protected inside a vehicle as opposed to sitting exposed on a bicycle), with significant shifts in their construing and driving.
2017, David Dansky, Clare Morris, “Carsickness: Reconstruing Driving and Cycling”, in Peter Cummins, Harry Procter, David Winter, Nick Reed, editors, Personal Construct Psychology at 60: Papers from the 21st International Congress, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, →ISBN, page 442
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