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).