Abstract
Abstract This article explores the importance of the person-in-relation for George Kelly. His construing of the importance of other people to the construing individual, as evidenced in an extensive analysis of his writing, was laddered and pyramided to elucidate the nature of the hierarchical links that result. Other people are of importance for the testing of one's construing system and the resulting development of a workable predictive system by which one can more readily approximate reality. People are also important elements to construe. Kelly advocates that this be based on the construing of other's construing, which facilitates the development of role relationships and results in the dispersion of one's dependencies. The superordinate consequence of this is the satisfaction of wants and needs. The resulting hierarchies provide a view of Kelly's theory of the person that differs in emphasis from that usually portrayed, even expressly by Kelly himself. Dependency is seen as more central, and the const...
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