Personal constructs in thanatology: An introduction and research bibliography

Abstract

In spite of the proliferation of clinical and empirical work in the psychology of death and dying over the last two decades, this literature still lacks a unifying psychological theory that could help integrate disparate observations. George Kelly's theory of personal constructs is well situated to provide this much-needed conceptual grounding. The paper sketches the methodological and substantive contributions that construct theory can make to thanatology and provides a bibliography of relevant materials for the interested researcher and clinician.