Constructing Realities Meaning-Making Perspectives for Psychotherapists [Hardcover]

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.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 FoundatilS—