Constructing Realities: Meaning-Making Perspectives for Psychotherapists

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).