Constructing Realities: Meaning–Making Perspectives for Psychotherapists

Constructing Realities is an insightful look at meaning making in psychotherapy––from the perspective of the leading scholar–practitioners in the field. They offer their views 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.

Spis treści:
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: E xamples 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).

Nota biograficzna:
HUGH ROSEN is professor and interim chairperson in the Department of Mental Health Sciences, School of Health Sciences and Humanities, at the Medical College of Pennsylvania and Hahnemann University. He is the author of Piagetian Dimensions of Clinical Relevance (1985) and the coeditor of Constructivist Perspectives on Developmental Psychopathology and Atypical Development (1991) with Daniel P. Keating. KEVIN T. KUEHLWEIN is a staff psychologist and clinical associate at the Center for Cognitive Therapy at the University of Pennsylvania. He served as the first clinical coordinator of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Therapy and Research in suburban Philadelphia. His is, with Hugh Rosen, the coeditor of Cognitive Therapies in Action (1993) a Jossey–Bass publication.

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Constructing Realities is an insightful look at meaning making in psychotherapy––from the perspective of the leading scholar–practitioners in the field. They offer their views 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.