Harry Procter is Visiting Professor at the University of Hertfordshire, and was formerly a Consultant Clinical Psychologist in the UK National Health Service, specialising for many years in working with families in both adult and child mental health and disability settings. He is currently writing Making Sense of Making Sense: The Origins of Dialectical Constructivism in Hegel, Peirce and Kelly for Palgrave Macmillan. This book will explore the philosophical background to his model of therapeutic intervention, Personal and Relational Construct Psychotherapy. This was the subject of his first book, written with David Winter (2020), to be published by Palgrave in 2026.
David Winter is Professor Emeritus of Clinical Psychology at the University of Hertfordshire, where he was previously Programme Director of the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology as well as being Head of Clinical Psychology Services for Barnet in the English National Health Service. He has around 200 publications, and his books, as well as Personal and Relational Construct Psychotherapy with Harry Procter, include Personal Construct Psychology in Clinical Practice: Theory, Research, and Applications (1992, Routledge) and Trauma, Survival and Resilience in War Zones: The Psychological Impact of War in Sierra Leone and Beyond (with Rachel Brown, Stephanie Goins, and Clare Mason; 2016, Routledge). Together with Nick Reed, he has just finished editing George Kelly’s collected papers, and he is currently trying to get his first novel published.