Frames and Cages: The Repertory Grid Approach to Human Understanding
Frames and Cages: The Repertory Grid Approach to Human Understanding
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框架与笼子:人类理解的剧目网格方法
DOI:
10.1176/ajp.133.5.593
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发表时间:
1976
影响因子:
17.7
通讯作者:
W. A. Hunt
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作者:
W. A. Hunt
The repertory grid technique stems from the bate George Kelly’s theory of personal constructs. For Kelly, the key to understanding the personality of an individual lies in the rep-resentations or models of the world that the individual has adopted as a result of his experience with it. Access to this personal structure of constructs and values is attained by asking the person to rate what Kelly termed“elements,” such as significant others, the self, objects, situations, or con-cepts, on a series of ‘‘constructs,’‘which consist of bipolar scales, such as timid/bold, attractive/unattractive, and desir-able/undesirable. These ratings may then be related on a grid that offers a two-dimensional spatial representation or pro-jection of the interrelationship between elements and con-structs. The grid may result from a simple empirical analysis of the ratings or from the application of highly sophisticated mathematical procedures. The technique is a flexible one because it calls for the clinician to select those elements and constructs which he feels are pertinent to the patient’s(or client’s) problems. Thus a patient with disturbed family relations might be asked to rate significant family members and himself on such dimensions as friendly/hostile, dominant/submissive, and pleasing/disturbing. The repertory grid as a technique is independent of the theoretical framework within which it is applied. Thus, although Ryle’s orientation is psychoanalytic, his systematic position does not alter the basic repertory grid methodology. Rather, it expresses itself in the choice of elements and con-structs to be used and in the clinical interpretation of find-ings. Ryle begins with a critical assessment of Kelly’s phiboso-phy, followed by an exposition of the repertory grid technique. He provides numerous case examples and cites the cx-perimental literature, albeit not extensively. He then in-tegrates all of this with his personal analytic position. Thus the book essentially consists of two intermingled parts: a clear exposition of the repertory grid technique and an equalby clear development of the author’s psychoanalytic approach.There can be little disagreement with the explanation of the technique. Anyone should understand and be abbe to use the grid technique after reading this book. However. some disagreement may inevitably arise with Rybe’s psychoanalytic interpretation. As a theoretician he is stimulating, but he writes with a definitely authoritative stance that makes few concessions to opposing views. One wonders whether his strong criticism of Kelly’s thinking as sometimes “naive, overstated, and overpolemical” may not boome-