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Now that you have a good feel for the repertory grid, how it’s elicited, and
how to appreciate, in some depth, the meanings it conveys, it might be a good
point to take in a little more theory. I suggest that the most valuable activity at
this stage would be to go outside the field of personal construct psychology,
and read what some other people of a constructivist inclination have to say
about how people construe and, in particular, how they come to share
constructions of their experience.
. Berger, P.L. & Luckmann, T. (1976) The Social Nature of Reality. Harmondsworth:
Penguin.
One field in which process analysis is important is personal counselling and
guidance. The following is directly relevant as an example of professional
practice.
. Jankowicz, A.D. & Cooper, K. (1982) ‘The use of focused repertory grids in
counselling’. British Journal of Guidance and Counselling, 10, 136–150.
It would also serve to show how approaches from personal construct
psychology are relevant to the process work done by OD consultants and
anyone taking an action learning approach to organisation development.