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Dr Raj Persaud explores the limits and potential of the mind, revealing the latest research and bringing together experts and commentators from the worlds of psychiatry, psychology and mental health.
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"All in the Mind provides a unique chance to meet the people at the cutting edge of research and developments on all aspects of the mind and brain from around the world. Please join me as we attempt to illuminate the most complex and least understood mechanism we have so far found in the Universe - the mind."
Dr Raj Persaud
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Kelly's Repertory Grid
Dr Raj Persaud talks to Claudia Hammond about the Repertory Grid developed by the American psychologist George Kelly.
Contributors:
Jo Silvester, Professor of Occupational Psychology at Goldsmiths University of London
Mark McDermott, Senior Lecturer in Health Psychology, University of East London.
Kelly’s Repertory Grid is a completely different way of looking at
personality from personality questionnaires. It was developed by George
Kelly and has been used clinically and in the workplace as well
as for individuals who simply want to understand themselves better. Kelly
wanted to understand people in their own terms instead of in the terms that
another psychologist had come up with.
He believed people behave as scientists, constantly coming up with theories
and then testing them out against in the real world. Then we build up models
of the world which help us to predict events and other people’s behaviour.
Unlike other personality measures it doesn’t give you scores for certain
traits, instead it can show the 'personal constructs' which you use to view
the world. Everyone will have their own unique model.
The Repertory Grid can be used in lots of different ways, but here’s one way
of making one of your own.
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To make your own grid, download and print out this pdf file:
Kelly's Grid (.pdf) 
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(You will need Acrobat Reader to view this file. For more information .)
At the top of each column write in the name of a significant person starting with yourself, then mother, father, spouse, boyfriend, girlfriend, best friend.
We’ve put some suggested headings here, but you can add your own. It’s up to you how many you include.
Then take three people from the grid and decide in what way two of them differ from the third.
For example perhaps you think that you and your father are shy, while your mother isn’t. This is your first construct. Write this in the column on the right. Ignore the crosses at the moment.
Choose another combination of three people and do the same again. Put the second construct in the next row down below the first.
You can carry on with as many combinations as you want to, but here are some suggestions for relationships which psychologists using Kelly’s methods in the past have found particularly useful.
| A |
Mother |
Father |
Sibling |
| B |
You |
Partner |
Best Friend |
| C |
You |
Best Friend |
Ex-Friend |
| D |
Partner |
Ex-Partner |
Best Friend |
| E |
Rejecting Person |
Threatening Person |
Best Friend |
| F |
Successful Person |
Happy Person |
Ethical Person |
It’s up to you how many constructs you want to find, but six is a good number to start with. These constructs show you the categories you use to look at the world.
You can stop here, but if you want to take it a step further.
Start on the left side of the chart with construct 1 and decide whether the left-hand side of the construct describes each person. E.g. is each person shy or not, put crosses for yes and circles for no.
When you’ve rated everyone for each construct, you can look and see where the ticks match up. The table at the bottom helps you to do this.
Look at row 1 and 2 first of all and count the number of times a cross appears in both rows for one person and the number of times a circle appears in both rows for one person. Add these numbers together and this gives you your number of matches to put in the chart.
Then do this for all the matches listed and see which has the biggest number. For example if Row 2 and 6 have the highest number of matches then you rated the people who could be described by the adjective in construct 2 are in your view also described by the adjective in construct 6. So in your view of the world these two constructs are related. This could be because they're similar adjectives, for example you'd expect everyone who was rated as kind to be rated as generous, but sometimes the results can be surprising, showing that you view the world in a slightly different way from the way you'd thought.
We'd be interested to know what constructs you came up with and whether there were any surprises. You can email the programme at:
allinthemind@bbc.co.uk
Carers
Being a carer is a strain - research shows a high incidence of stress-related problems among those caring for someone with a serious mental health problem. Rethink, which used to be known as the National Schizophrenia Fellowship, has developed a special course - the Carers' Education and Support Programme, or CESP - to provide carers with the kind of information they need - both to help the person they're caring for and to survive themselves. The programme's available in 50 places around the UK. Dr Raj Persaud discusses the kind of support available to carers with:
Andy Payne, Rethink's Carers' Education and Support Programme Coordinator for London and the South-East
Diana Whitworth, Chief Executive of Carers UK.
Campaigns for carers' rights and provides information for carers in leaflets, on their website, and through their advice line.
Carers line 0808 8087777 - 10am-12pm and 2pm-4pm
Charity supporting people with mental health needs and their carers.
Charity supporting people with mental health needs and their carers.
Phone 01925 571680 - 9 am-5pm
A network of over 200 schemes across the country that provide care attendants who can offer regular respite care to give carers a break.
Charity that provides information and support to carers through a network of over 100 carers centres across the country.
Phone 0207 480 7788
Offers wide range of services to people with severe and mental health problems and their carers, as well as campaigning for the rights of people with mental health problems and providing advice and information. Runs family carers education course discussed in the programme.
Advice line 0208 974 6814 (10am-3pm weekdays)
Campaigns for the rights of people with mental health problems and provides information and advice.
Advice line - 08457 660 163 (9.15 to 5.15pm Monday to Friday)
HELP IN A CRISIS
Confidential emotional support for anyone in a crisis
Open 24 hours a day seven days a week
National Crisis Line - 08457 909090
Provides confidential information, support, training and counselling to individuals affected by mental health difficulties and problematic benzodiazepine usage.
World Mental Health Day on Thursday 10th October
To mark World Mental Health Day, the government's anti-discrimination campaign, Mind out for Mental Health is launching a new action and awareness initiative, 'Double Take'.
Intended to encourage more open and positive attitudes to mental health, Double Take is calling for members of the public to send in photos of themselves showing the 'outside face' you present to the world, alongside a second image showing the 'inside face' that you keep hidden.
The results will form part of an exhibition next year. To find out more visit the website or ring 0870 443 0930 for a free leaflet.
Professor Michael Argyle
Professor Michael Argyle, who died last month, was one of the greatest figures in social psychology over the last 50 years. Dr Raj Persaud looks back at his career with Peter Robinson, Emeritus Professor of Social Psychology at Bristol University.
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RELATED LINKS
(Kelly's Grid)
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Health
Â鶹ԼÅÄ Health: Mental Health
Michael Argyll
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