George Alexander Kelly was an American psychologist, therapist, educator and personality theorist. He is considered a founding figure in the history of clinical psychology and is best known for his theory of personality, personal construct psychology, which has influenced constructivist, humanistic, existential and cognitive psychology.
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George Kelly introduced personal construct theory in his 1955 The Psychology of Personal Constructs, proposing that people understand and anticipate events through individually constructed bipolar categories.
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He is considered a founding figure in the history of clinical psychology and is best known for his theory of personality, personal construct psychology
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George Kelly contributed the Personal Construct Theory
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