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EDITORIAL – DENNIS HINKLE'S THEORY OF CONSTRUCT IMPLICATIONS
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Jörn W. Scheer * & Trevor Butt ** |
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* Personal Construct Information Centre, Hamburg,
Germany
** University of Huddersfield, UK
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Dennis Hinkle’s PhD
dissertation has been one of the most quoted references in the PCP literature
since its submission in 1965. Yet it has been unavailable except to the very
few who were lucky to own a personal copy – until 2010, thanks to a query by
Simone Cheli to Fay Fransella who wanted to use Hinkle’s theory of implications
in his work for his course in Italy. She
decided to do what she had meant to for years – to scan the dissertation. With
Dennis Hinkle’s permission that has been done and with Simone Cheli’s computer
skills the thesis has been put into emailable form, whence it has been
available from Fay Fransella personally – sponsored by the Centre for
Personal Construct Psychology at the School of Psychology, University of
Hertfordshire, UK (http://www.centrepcp.co.uk).
The Constructive
Interventionist, the Centre’s newsletter, published an “introduction to
Dennis Hinkle” by Fay Fransella and a “glance backward” by Dennis Hinkle
himself. Both are included in this
supplement, together with a note by Simone Cheli. The work Fay Fransella and
Simone Cheli put into the re-creation of a thesis that was written forty-five
years ago is thankfully acknowledged, as is Beverly Walker’s correspondence
with Dennis Hinkle over the last ten years that paved the way for his renewed
contact with the PCP community. Richard Butler has included an account by
Dennis Hinkle of the writing of his dissertation in the book on reflexivity in PCT that he edited in 2009 (Hinkle, 2009).
Personal Construct
Theory & Practice, the only academic journal devoted exclusively to the Psychology of Personal Constructs, is now in its seventh
year as a peer-reviewed, free online journal. We are proud that we are able to
start a series of ‘supplements’ to the journal with Dennis Hinkle’s legendary
work.
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REFERENCE |
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| Hinkle, D.
N. (2009). Reflections on the creation of a dissertation. In R. J. Butler
(2009). Reflections in personal construct
theory. Chichester: Wiley-Blackwell (pp. 319-327).
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ABOUT
THE
AUTHORS
Jörn Scheer and Trevor Butt are editors of this journal.
Email:
joern.scheer@joern-scheer.de
t.butt@hud.ac.uk
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REFERENCE
Scheer,
J. W., Butt, T. (2010). Editorial – Dennis Hinkle’s theory of construct implications.
Personal Construct Theory & Practice, 7, Supplement No 1, ii, 2010
(Retrieved from
http://www.pcp-net.org/journal/pctp10/scheer-butt10.html)
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Published: 31 August 2010 |
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