Advances in personal construct psychology : new directions and perspectives

Author(s)

• Neimeyer, Robert A.
• Neimeyer, Greg J.

Bibliographic Information

Advances in personal construct psychology : new directions and perspectives

edited by Robert A. Neimeyer, Greg J. Neimeyer

Praeger, 2002

Note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

This volume offers an authoritative review of leading scholarship in personal construct theory and related approaches, giving fresh analyses of problems such as the construction of selfhood, processes of meaning-making in substance abuse and attention deficit disorder, and the dynamics of insight. Methodologically oriented readers will find critical reappraisals of repertory grid measures, as well as new analytic strategies for textual analysis. Readers from a range of disciplines including clinical and counseling practice, organizational consultation, education, research design and methodology and the social sciences in general will find in this volume a sophisticated exploration of a host of constructionist and social constructionist concerns. Those include debates between realism and relativism, issues in dialectical and relational self-development, and psychotherapeutic strategies. The social construction of mental disorders and therapeutic interventions is also addressed.

Table of Contents

Preface Theoretical Frontiers The Person as a Motivated Storyteller: Valuation Theory and the Self-Confrontation Method by Hubert J. M. Hermans Insight: Transcending the Obvious by Christopher D. Stevens and Beverly M. Walker The Relational Basis of Personal Construct Psychology by Dusan Stojnov and Trevor Butt Methodological Advances Textual Analysis of Therapeutic Discourse by Manuel Villegas Is There a Madness in Our Method? The Effects of Repertory Grid Variations on Measures of Construct System Structure by Greg J. Neimeyer, et al. Deconstructing Disorder Deconstructing and Reconstructing Substance Use and "Addiction": Constructivist Perspectives by Mark Burrell The Poetic Construction of AD/HD: A Diagnostic Fable by James C. Mancuso, Glenn A. Yelich, and Theodore R. Sarbin Evaluating Personal Construct and Psychodynamic Group Work with Adolescent Offenders and Nonoffenders by Linda L. Viney and Rachel M. Henry

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Details

• NCID: BA61696387
• ISBN:
  • 0275972941
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Wesport, Conn. ; London
• Pages/Volumes: viii, 319 p.
• Size: 25 cm.
• Classification:
  • DC21 : 150.198
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Personal construct theory