Constructing realities : meaning-making perspectives for psychotherapists
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Constructing realities : meaning-making perspectives for psychotherapists
Jossey-Bass Publishers, c1996
1st ed
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Includes bibliographical references and indexes
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Description
An insightful, provocative collection that will enrich your work with new vitality, meaning, and direction. Offers timely perspectives on the theory and practice of psychotherapy as reflected in the themes of narrative, constructivism, social constructionism, postmodernism, epistemology, developmental constructivism, language, and social discourse.
Table of Contents
Part I: An Orienting Framework.
1. Meaning-Making Narratives: Foundations for Constructivist and Social Constructionist Psychotherapies (Hugh Rosen).
Part II: Constructivist and Social Constructionist Epistemology and Praxis.
2. The Construction of Clinical "Realities" (Paul Watzlawick).
3. Psychotherapeutic Theory and Practice: Contributions from Maturana's Structure Determinism (Jay S. Efran, Mitchell A. Greene).
4. Psychothethrapy as a Social Construction (Sheila McNamee).
Part III: The Social Context of Construing.
5. Relationship Factors in the Creation of Identity: A Psychodynamic Perspective (Carolyn Saari).
6. Women's Constructions of Truth, Self, Authority, and Power (Nancy Rule Goldberger).
7. Narrative, Social Constructionism, and Buddhism (William D. Lax).
Part IV: The Construction of Affect.
8. Emotional Creativity: Theoretical and Applied Aspects (Elma P. Nunley, James R. Averill).
9. Emotion and Cognition in Experiential Therapy: A Dialectical Constructivist Perspective (Jeanne C. Watson, Leslie S. Greenberg).
Part V: Constructivist Metatheory in Psychotherapy Integration.
10. Psychoanalysis and Constructivism: Convergence in Meaning-Making Perspectives (Stephen Soldz).
11. Narrative and the Process of Psychotherapy: Theoretical Foundations and Empirical Support (Robert L. Russell, Mary L. Wandrei).
12. Metaphor, Meaning-Making, and Metamorphosis (Mary Baird Carlsen).
Part VI:Constructivist and Social Constructionist Psychotherapy: Examples of Personal Implications.
13. Process Interventions for the Constructivist Psychotherapist (Robert A. Neimeyer).
14. Couples Therapy: Change Talk (Steven Friedman).
15. The Meaning of Relationship in Residential Treatment: A Development Perspective (Robert L. Selman, Steven Brion-Meisels, Gregory G. Wilkins).
Part VII: An Integrating Framework.
16. Interweaving Themes and Threads of Meaning-Making (Kevin T. Kuehlwein).
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